Nicolaus Copernicus : Making the Earth a Planet.
Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | MacLachlan, James H. |
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| Imprint: | Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Expanding the World -- Chapter 2. School Days in Poland -- Chapter 3. At the University in Cracow -- Sidebar: Astronomy before Copernicus -- Chapter 4. A Scholar in Italy -- Sidebar: Ptolemy's Equant -- Sidebar: The Myth of Epicycles-on-Epicycles -- Chapter 5. The Breakthrough -- Chapter 6. An Earth-Shaking Development -- Sidebar: Parallax: Using Geometry to Find Distance -- Chapter 7. The Busy Canon -- Sidebar: Copernicus's Instruments and Observatory -- Chapter 8. On the Revolutions -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Further Reading and Websites -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W. | |
| 520 | |a Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the sun. | ||
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