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Nicolaus Copernicus
Gingerich, Owen; Maclachlan, James
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Description for Nicolaus Copernicus
hardcover. Series: Oxford Portraits in Science. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: BGT. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Born in Poland in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the sun. Today it is hard to imagine our solar system any other way, but for his time Copernicus's idea was earthshaking. In 1616 the church banned his book Revolutions because it contradicted ... Read more
Born in Poland in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the sun. Today it is hard to imagine our solar system any other way, but for his time Copernicus's idea was earthshaking. In 1616 the church banned his book Revolutions because it contradicted ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OUP USA US
Language
English
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Portraits in Science
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195161731
SKU
V9780195161731
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Reviews for Nicolaus Copernicus
Numerous diagrams illustrate the concepts; additional art includes woodcuts, details from period books and paintings, and photographs.... A valuable resource.
School Library Journal
Contains many interesting details on the life of a scientist and mathematician who, working in obscurity in a remote part of Poland, revised a world view that had prevailed for the previous 1500 years. It ... Read more
School Library Journal
Contains many interesting details on the life of a scientist and mathematician who, working in obscurity in a remote part of Poland, revised a world view that had prevailed for the previous 1500 years. It ... Read more