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Rating: Summary: Approach with Caution! Not for the Intellectually Lazy. Review: I would hate to discourage anyone from reading this book. I loved this book, but it is challenging. An undergraduate degree in a technical field and a fair amateur's knowledge of spherical astronomy is probably a minimum requirement for fully appreciating this book. This is not to say that Professor Gingerich is obscure, rather he writes with remarkable clarity but he aims at his peers, who are mostly Oxford dons. I would recommend borrowing it from your local library before investing in it.I am sure there are thousands of high school freshman who will digest this book without any problem, I wasn't one of them and I never met any such.
Rating: Summary: Required reading! Review: This book is essential for anybody who wants to understand what Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler really did. It's a bit more technical than "The Great Copernicus Chase", but if you're serious, you'll appreciate it. And if you're really serious, you'll get a copy of the paper by James Evans in Am. J. Phys 56 (Nov, 1988) 1009-1024. It answered tons of technical questions for me. Just do it, you'll thank me (and Jim Evans!).
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