On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking (Editor),Paperback,Series: On the Shoulder of Giants Series, English-language edition,Pub by Running Press Book Publishers on 11-29-2004
Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking (Editor),Paperback,Series: On the Shoulder of Giants Series, English-language edition,Pub by Running Press Book Publishers on 11-29-2004
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780762420216 (0762420219)
Publish date: 2004-12-01
Publisher: Running Press
Pages no: 408
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...