History of astronomy. Great discoveries

The book of the authoritative British scientist John Dreier has been devoted to the history of astronomy from ancient times to the 17th century. The author traces the evolution of ideas about the structure of the Universe, starting with the views of the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians and Greeks, illuminates the cosmological theories of Thales. Anaximandra, Parmenides and other Greek natural philosophers, introduces the teachings of the Pythagoreans and the ideas of Plato. Dreyer describes in detail the theory of concentric planetary spheres of Eudox and Calipp and the geocentric system of the universe of Ptolemy. Further, the author considers the scientific views of the medieval scientists of the West and the East, the ideas of Nikolai Kuzansky, Regiomontan, Kalcanyini and other thinkers of the Renaissance and completes his exhaustive work with the presentation of Copernicus theories, quietly Brage and Kepler