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In this study of the Copernican Revolution, the author brings to a common focus the considered approach of the historian, the technical understanding ... More

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"A history of the controversy over sunspots with translations of the letters contained in Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie ... More

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Tantrasangraha, composed by the renowned Kerala astronomer N lakantha Somay j (c.1444-1545 AD) ranks along with ryabhat ya of ryabhata and Siddh nta ... More

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For Forty Years, Beginning With The Publication Of The First Modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, ... More

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Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the ... More

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Cosmographical Glass features more than 100 astronomical and mythical diagrams from books printed before 1700, revealing how people of the ... More

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"Westman's profound understanding of his subject informs every page of this magisterial book. "The Copernican Question" provides a new road map to ... More

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This book was first published in 2007 and is a study of the astronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe. It examines, in particular, the ways in ... More

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In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not ... More

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This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general ... More

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As contemporary cosmologists explore the universe's vastness and the nearly insignificant role mankind plays in it, the repercussions from Copernicus ... More

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Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of modern era: the theory that the earth and the other planets ... More

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In May, 1539, a young, German mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus traveled hundreds of miles across Europe in the hopes of meeting and ... More

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and litterateur of the sixteenth ... More

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Often referred to as the "Timid Canon," Nicholas Copernicus quietly developed a sun-centered model of the universe that sparked the dramatic ... More

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