Bøger af Dino Boccaletti

This book addresses an emblematic case of a potential faith-reason, or faith-science, conflict that never arose, even though the biblical passage in question runs counter to simple common sense.

This book describes in detail the various theories on the shape of the Earth from classical antiquity to the present day and examines how measurements of its form and dimensions have evolved throughout this period.

This book is intended as a historical and critical study on the origin of the equations of motion as established in Newton's Principia. The central question that it aims to answer is whether it is indeed correct to ascribe to Galileo the inertia principle and the law of falling bodies.

This book arose out of original research on the extension of well-established applications of complex numbers related to Euclidean geometry and to the space-time symmetry of two-dimensional Special Relativity. The system of hyperbolic numbers is extensively studied, and a plain exposition of space-time geometry and trigonometry is given.

This textbook treats celestial mechanics as well as stellar dynamics from the common point of view of orbit theory making use of concepts and techniques from modern geometric mechanics. The book is meant for students in astronomy and physics with a knowledge of calculus and differential geometry.

Das Lehrbuch behandelt die Himmelsmechanik und die Stellardynamik aus dem Blickwinkel der Orbitaltheorie, wobei auf Konzepte und Techniken der modernen geometrischen Mechanik zuruckgegriffen wird. Es ist an Astronomie- und Physikstudenten gleichermassen gerichtet. Grundkenntnisse in Analysis und Differentialgeometrie sind erforderlich.