The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part I
Introduction: Copernicus’ significant predecessors and driving forces towards astronomical reform
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part II
Playing catchup with Islamic astronomy and early printed scientific books
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part III
The fifteenth century universities and the teaching of astronomy
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part IV
The advance of science and the invention of book printing
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part V
The debate on comets in the sixteenth century
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part VI
Copernicus’ Commentariolus
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part VII
Rheticus the midwife of De revolutionibus
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part VIII
Rheticus in Frombork and the Narratio Prima
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part IX
Johannes Petreius the printer/publisher of De revolutionibus
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part X
De revolutionibus
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XI
De revolutionibus the early reception
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XII
De revolutionibus the wider reception
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XIII
Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1532–1592) and new astronomical data
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XIV
Tycho Brahe and new astronomical data
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XV
Tycho Brahe
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XVI
The geo-heliocentric model of the cosmos
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XVII
Michael Mästlin
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XVIII
Kepler
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XIX
Kepler and Tycho
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XX
The invention of the telescope
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXI
The first telescopic astronomers
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXII
The early telescopic discoveries
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXIII
Taking stock in 1613
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXIV
Conflict with the Catholic Church in 1615
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXV
The comets of 1618
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVI
Kepler’s influential publications in the 1620s
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII
Galileo’s Dialogo and that trial
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVIII
Dismantling Aristotle’s theories of motion
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXIX
The Laws of fall
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXX
What moves the planets?
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXI
The Transits of Venus and Mercury and the phases of Mercury
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXII
Reading about heliocentricity after 1616
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXIII
Proto-sciencefiction and heliocentricity in the seventeenth century
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXIV
The development of the telescope from the Galilean telescope to the Keplerian astronomical telescope
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXV
The development of physics in the seventeenth century
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXVI
Geo-heliocentrismus vs Keplerian elliptical astronomy the pros and cons
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXVII
Comets in Europe in the 1660s
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXVIII
Comets in Europe in the 1680s
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXIX
Theories of gravity before Newton
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XL
The discussion in a coffee shop that led to Newton’s Principia
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLI
Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica an overview
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLII
Edmond Halley and the Comets
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLIII
Newton’s Problems with the Moon
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLIV
Philosophical objections to Newton’s theory of gravitation
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLV
The failed search for stellar parallax and the discovery of stellar aberration
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVI
Determining the size and shape of the Earth
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVII
Determining the size of the solar system Part 1
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVIII
Determining the size of the solar system Part 2
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLIX
The slow end of the conflict with the Catholic Church on the heliocentric system
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part L
Stellar parallax detected at last
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LI
Finally a direct demonstration of diurnal rotation
The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LII
Conclusion: The end is another beginning
The Renaissance Mathematicus 