Galileo and Einstein

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This website provides materials for a university-level historical astronomy course. Full lecture notes are provided, along with animations and simulations to illustrate aspects of the course. Links are provided to related supporting material.

The course lecture notes are extensive and focus on two revolutions in the way humanity perceives the universe. The lectures begin with a review of important contributions from early civilizations, before focusing on the paradigm shift following Galileo's discoveries. The last part of the course discusses Einstein's contributions to astronomy and develops the theory of special relativity.

http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Historical Astronomy Classical Mechanics - General General Physics - History Relativity - Miscellaneous - Special Relativity	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Course = Lecture/Presentation - Reference Material

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 1996 Michael Fowler
Keywords:: Acceleration, Achilles, Apollonius, Aristarchus, Aristotle, Babylon, Baghdad, Copernicus, Einstein, Euclid, Eudoxus, Galileo, Greek Science, Hippocrates, Hypatia, Isaac Newton, Islamic Science, Johannes Kepler, Michelson-Morley Experiment, Miletus, Plato, Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Special Relativity, Synchronizing Clocks, Telescope, Time Dilation, Tycho Brahe, Zeno's paradox, momentum, twin paradox
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created May 13, 2004 by Patricia Monahan
Record Updated:: August 22, 2009 by Gregory Comer
Last Update when Cataloged:: October 21, 2007
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