UID:
almafu_9959236578802883
Format:
1 online resource (124 p. )
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ill. ;
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-803660-4
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1-4294-6212-4
Series Statement:
Oxford portraits in science
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Expanding the World -- Chapter 2. School Days in Poland -- Chapter 3. At the University in Cracow -- Sidebar: Astronomy before Copernicus -- Chapter 4. A Scholar in Italy -- Sidebar: Ptolemy's Equant -- Sidebar: The Myth of Epicycles-on-Epicycles -- Chapter 5. The Breakthrough -- Chapter 6. An Earth-Shaking Development -- Sidebar: Parallax: Using Geometry to Find Distance -- Chapter 7. The Busy Canon -- Sidebar: Copernicus's Instruments and Observatory -- Chapter 8. On the Revolutions -- Epilogue -- Chronology -- Further Reading and Websites -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-516173-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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