Ebook: Mathematical Methods in Science

""Front Cover""; ""Mathematical Methods in Science""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1. From the History of Astronomy: Measurement and Successive Approximation""; ""SECTION 1 MEASUREMENT""; ""1 The Tunnel""; ""2 Measuring: Triangulating""; ""3 How Far Away is the Moon?""; ""4 Why Teach Triangulation?""; ""SECTION 2 ASTRONOMICAL MEASUREMENTS""; ""1 Aristarchus of Samos""; ""2 Radius of Earth: Eratosthenes""; ""3 Rival Cosmologies""; ""4 The Orbit of Venus""; ""5 Tycho Brahe and Kepler""; ""6 The Mars Year""; ""7 The Orbit of Mars""