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Author:   John Henry
Publisher:   Icon Books
Imprint:   Icon Books
Dimensions:   Width: 11.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.159kg
ISBN:  

9781840462517

ISBN 10:   1840462515
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   08 May 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Contents Acknowledgements 1 You'd Have to Be Crazy to Say the Earth Moves Science or insanity? Nothing new under the Sun Astronomy rules, OK? 2 Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves? Heavenly orbs Science or art? Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology How to avoid a crisis: the medieval stand-off How to create a crisis: Nicolaus Copernicus, cosmologist 3 Who Was Copernicus? Why Copernicus? Life and times Renaissance man Renaissance mathematician 4 What Was the Reaction? Small beginnings Copernicus and the astronomers Copernicus and the Churches Copernicus and the Aristotelians 5 What Difference Did it Make? A world of difference One physics or two? How the Earth moves Space: the final frontier 6 Last Words Glossary Further Reading

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John Henry did a Ph.D. at the Open University and is now a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh University. He mostly works on the history of interactions between science, medicine, magic and religion in the Renaissance period.

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