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Nicolaus Copernicus : Making the Earth a Planet.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Portraits in Science SeriesPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (128 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198036609
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nicolaus CopernicusDDC classification:
  • 520/.92 B
LOC classification:
  • QB36.C8G46 2005
Online resources:
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 -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: 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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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.

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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