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B013253 - HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
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Course Content
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2010-11
Coorte 2010 - Second Cycle Degree in SCIENZE FISICHE E ASTROFISICHE
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Physics and Astronomy
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
FIS/05 - ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Credits
3
Teaching Hours
24
Teaching Term
01/03/2011 ⇒ 23/06/2011
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course Content
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Lectureship
Course Content
Egyptian and Babylonian. Astronomy, Medieval cosmologies. Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler. Galileo and Newton. Astronomy and navigation. Celestial mechanics. William Herschel and the progress of the astronomy. Astronomy in the 19th century and the birth of the Astrophysics.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired:
Mechanisms of scientific knowledge formation, special case of astronomy and cosmology
Competence acquired: astronomical data, evaluation, experimental errors, observations modeling analysis
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Analysis of simple Hellenistic medieval and Renaissance technical texts,
Mechanisms of scientific knowledge formation, special case of astronomy and cosmology
Competence acquired: astronomical data, evaluation, experimental errors, observations modeling analysis
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Analysis of simple Hellenistic medieval and Renaissance technical texts,
Prerequisites
Courses required: Astronomy
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...):
75
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities:
50
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 25
75
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities:
50
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 25
Further information
Teaching tools: Astronomical data reduction software, mathematical routines
Office hours:
Alberto Righini Department of Physics and Astrophysics, room 252 Monday 15:00-16:30
Office hours:
Alberto Righini Department of Physics and Astrophysics, room 252 Monday 15:00-16:30
Course program
Egyptian and Babylonian astronomy. Astronomy of the presocratics. Plato and the study of the sky, Aristotele cosmology. Hipparchus and Claudius Ptolemy. Arabic, Persian and Medieval cosmologies. Comment some chapters of De Revolutionibus. The role of Copernicus. Role of Tycho and Kepler. Galileo and Newton. Astronomy and navigation. Celestial mechanics. William Herschel and the progress of the astronomy. Astronomy in the 19th century and the birth of Astrophysics.