On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles G. Wallis (Translator),Paperback - New Edition,Series: Great Minds Series, English-language edition,Pub by Prometheus Books
Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles G. Wallis (Translator),Paperback - New Edition,Series: Great Minds Series, English-language edition,Pub by Prometheus Books
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781573920353 (1573920355)
Publish date: November 1st 1995
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Science,
Physics,
Philosophy,
Astronomy,
Theory,
Mathematics,
16th Century,
Polish Literature
It wasn’t until some 70 years later, helped by Galileo‘s stubbornness, that the heliocentric universe posited by Copernicus’ book resulted in the Roman Catholic Church decree that heliocentrism was heresy. Copernicus expressed his fear of this reaction, or more likely the scorn of the mathematical...