Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks to KeplerIn Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks, Theodor S. Kepler seeks to present a bird's eye view of the astronomical nature of the work of Newton's predecessors. Rather than dwelling only on the influence of each thinker's great ideas, Jacobsen tracks the actual details of their development by investigating the various systems involved and how they were used. As such, this book is an attempt to describe the specific processes through which (pre