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Pioneers of Science
by Oliver Lodge (1851-1940)
This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the second part, the biographies take a back seat, while scientific discoveries are discussed more extensively, like the discovery of Asteroids and Neptune, a treatise on the tides and others. (Summary by Availle)
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In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by:
Book Coordinator: Availle
Dedicated Proof-Listener: mim@can
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: J. M. Smallheer
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- 00 Preface – 00:02:24
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Read by Availle - 01 Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth – 00:41:43
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Read by Kathleen Nelson - 02 Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory – 00:32:12
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Read by James Christopher - 03 Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion – 00:51:15
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Read by Utek - 04 Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the telescope – 00:40:22
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Read by Megan Argo - 05 Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition – 00:41:51
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Read by Megan Argo - 06 Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices – 00:46:41
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Read by Availle - 07 Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton – 00:38:15
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Read by Amy Gramour - 08 Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation – 00:37:26
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Read by Edward W. LaBonte - 09 Lecture IX: Newton's "Principia" – 00:55:27
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Read by John Kooz - 10 Lecture X: Roemer & Bradley and the Velocity of Light – 00:39:09
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Read by Mark F. Smith - 11 Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis – 00:33:07
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Read by Michael Lipschultz - 12 Lecture XII: Herschel and The Motion of the Fixed Stars – 00:32:14
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Read by Kathleen Nelson - 13 Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods – 00:16:15
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Read by Ali Kazerani - 14 Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets – 00:29:08
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Read by Availle - 15 Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune – 00:23:27
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Read by Ali Kazerani - 16 Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors – 00:34:02
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Read by John Kooz - 17 Lecture XVII: The Tides – 00:37:42
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Read by J. M. Smallheer - 18 Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution – 00:41:37
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Read by Simon Dexter
Cataloged on August 31, 2010













