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Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet - Oxford Portraits in Science Gingerich, Owen (Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science, Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Research Professor of
Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet - Oxford Portraits in Science
Gingerich, Owen (Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science, Senior Astronomer Emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Research Professor of
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.
128 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 16, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195161731 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 128 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 244 × 14 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |