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• 00 Preface
• 01 Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth
• 02 Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory
• 03 Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
• 04 Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the telescope
• 05 Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition
• 06 Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices
• 07 Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton
• 08 Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation
• 09 Lecture IX: Newton's Principia
• 10 Lecture X: Roemer & Bradley and the Velocity of Light
• 11 Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis
• 12 Lecture XII: Herschel and The Motion of the Fixed Stars
• 13 Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods
• 14 Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets
• 15 Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune
• 16 Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors
• 17 Lecture XVII: The Tides
• 18 Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution