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. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005. |
| Series: | Oxford Portraits in Science Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
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- C
- D
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- F
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