Moving Heaven and Earth

Copernicus and the Solar System

John Henry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2001
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-84046-251-7 (ISBN)

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Copernicus sowed the seed from which science has grown to be a dominant aspect of modern culture, fundamental in shaping our understanding of the workings of the cosmos. John Henry reveals why Copernicus was led to such a seemingly outrageous and inplausible idea as a swiftly moving Earth.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.5.2001
Reihe/Serie	Revolutions in Science S.
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Duxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	111 x 178 mm
Gewicht	159 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	1-84046-251-5 / 1840462515
ISBN-13	978-1-84046-251-7 / 9781840462517
Zustand	Neuware