The Making Of Copernicus
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The Making Of Copernicus
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-10-16
The Making Of Copernicus written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with History categories.
The volume articles examine exemplarily how some of the Copernicus myths came about and if they could hold their ground. They investigate methodological, institutional, textual and visual transformations of the Copernican doctrine and the topical, rhetorical and literary transformations of the historical person of Copernicus respectively.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Author : Owen Gingerich
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2005-06-16
Nicolaus Copernicus written by Owen Gingerich and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents the life and accomplishments of the man considered the "father of the Scientific Revolution" due to his theory that the sun is the center of the solar system and the planets revolve around it.
Copernicus
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Author : Owen Gingerich
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Copernicus written by Owen Gingerich and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Astronomers categories.
Leading historian of science Owen Gingerich offers a fascinating portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who developed the concept of a heliocentric universe and is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science.
The Sun Centered Universe And Nicolaus Copernicus
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Author : Fred Bortz
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2013-12-15
The Sun Centered Universe And Nicolaus Copernicus written by Fred Bortz and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Before Copernicus, educated people believed without a doubt that the sun and the planets traveled around Earth. Through his brilliant thinking and years of careful observation and documentation, Copernicus turned this idea on its head, making the astonishing assertion that Earth revolves around the sun. In this engaging biography, the author traces the great scientist's life and influences in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including his work in the Roman Catholic Church. The title is an excellent resource for Common Core anchor standard 3: analyzing the development of individuals, events, and ideas.
Copernicus Secret
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Author : Jack Repcheck
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-12-04
Copernicus Secret written by Jack Repcheck and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to proclaim that the earth rotates on its axis once every twenty-four hours. His theory was truly radical: during his lifetime nearly everyone believed that a perfectly still earth rested in the middle of the cosmos, where all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. One of the transcendent geniuses of the early Renaissance, Copernicus was also a flawed and conflicted person. A cleric who lived during the tumultuous years of the early Reformation, he may have been sympathetic to the teachings of the Lutherans. Although he had taken a vow of celibacy, he kept at least one mistress. Supremely confident intellectually, he hesitated to disseminate his work among other scholars. It fact, he kept his astronomical work a secret, revealing it to only a few intimates, and the manuscript containing his revolutionary theory, which he refined for at least twenty years, remained "hidden among my things." It is unlikely that Copernicus' masterwork would ever have been published if not for a young mathematics professor named Georg Joachim Rheticus. He had heard of Copernicus' ideas, and with his imagination on fire he journeyed hundreds of miles to a land where, as a Lutheran, he was forbidden to travel. Rheticus' meeting with Copernicus in a small cathedral town in northern Poland proved to be one of the most important encounters in history. Copernicus' Secretrecreates the life and world of the scientific genius whose work revolutionized astronomy and altered our understanding of our place in the world. It tells the surprising, little-known story behind the dawn of the scientific age.
The Life Of Copernicus 1473 1543
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Author : Pierre Gassendi
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2002
The Life Of Copernicus 1473 1543 written by Pierre Gassendi and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Copernican Revolution
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Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Copernican Revolution written by Thomas S. Kuhn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Science categories.
For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Thomas S. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man’s concept of his relation to the universe and to God. The book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks. Mr. Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief. He describes the many functions—astronomical, scientific, and nonscientific—of the Greek concept of the universe, concentrating especially on the religious implications. He then treats the intellectual, social, and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus’ break with traditional astronomy. Although many of these developments, including scholastic criticism of Aristotle’s theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism, lie entirely outside of astronomy, they increased the flexibility of the astronomer’s imagination. That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus, whose De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovation. With a final analysis of Copernicus’ life work—its reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universe—Mr. Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work, and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science. These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and self-consistent conception of the universe and of his own place in it. This is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and, in particular, in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science. Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword: “Professor Kuhn’s handling of the subject merits attention, for...he points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times.”
The Genesis Of The Copernican World
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Author : Hans Blumenberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1987
The Genesis Of The Copernican World written by Hans Blumenberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Philosophy categories.
This major work by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg is a monumental rethinking of the significance of the Copernican revolution for our understanding of modernity.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Author : Barbara A. Somervill
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2008-02
Nicolaus Copernicus written by Barbara A. Somervill and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Profiles the life and work of the Polish astronomer who believed that the planets revolved around the Sun and the Earth was not the center of the universe.
The Birth Of Science
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Author : Alex Ely Kossovsky
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-08-14
The Birth Of Science written by Alex Ely Kossovsky and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-14 with Science categories.
This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines the personal lives of six of the intellectual giants involved. It explores the profound revolution in the way of thinking, and in particular the successful refutation of the school of thought inherited from the Greeks, which focused on the perfection and immutability of the celestial world. In addition, the emergence of the scientific method and the adoption of mathematics as the central tool in scientific endeavors are discussed. The book then explores the delicate thread between pure philosophy, grand unifying theories, and verifiable real-life scientific facts. Lastly, it turns to Kepler’s crucial 3rd law and shows how it was derived from a mere six data points, corresponding to the six planets known at the time. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, the book will inform and fascinate all aficionados of science, history, philosophy, and, in particular, astronomy.