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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John HenryPublisher: Icon Books Imprint: Icon Books Dimensions: Width: 11.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 17.80cm Weight: 0.159kg ISBN: 9781840462517ISBN 10: 1840462515 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 08 May 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents 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 ReadingReviewsAuthor InformationJohn 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |