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A History of Physical Theories of Comets, From Aristotle to Whipple
- Springer Netherlands
- 2013
- Taschenbuch
- 292 Seiten
- ISBN 9789048178421
Although the development of ideas about the motion and trajectory of comets has been investigated piecemeal, we lack a comprehensive and detailed survey of ph- ical theories of comets. The available works either illustrate relatively short periods in the history of physical cometology or portray a landscape view without adequate details. The present study is an attempt to review ¿ with more details ¿ the major physical theories of comets in the past two millennia, from Aristotle to Whipple. My research, however, did not begin with antiquity. The basic question from which this project originated was a simple inquiry about the cosmic identity of comets at
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