Nicolaus Copernicus - Making The Earth A Planet

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 the accepted notion that God placed Earth in the center of the universe. Even though those who knew of his work considered his idea dangerous, Revolutions remained of interest only to other scientists for many years. It took almost two hundred years for his concept of a sun-centered system to reach the general public. None the less, what Copernicus set out in his remarkable text truly revolutionized science. For this, Copernicus, a quiet doctor who made a tremendous leap of imagination, is considered the father of the Scientific Revolution.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Owen Gingerich, Owen (Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Gingerich, Owen/ Maclachlan Gingerich, Gingerich Owen, James MacLachlan, James (Professor of History MacLachlan
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: 12 à 17 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 16.06.2005
• EAN: 9780195161731
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516173-1
• Pages: 124
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• Thèmes: Oxford Portraits in Science; Oxford Portraits in Science (H; Oxford Portraits in Science
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Nature, technique > Biographies, autobiographies; Livres pour enfants et adolescents > Littérature spécialisée (texte ou images) > Sciences naturelles, technique; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; SCIENCE / History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, History of Science, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine