Nicolaus Copernicus: Making The Earth A Planet

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.

• | By (Author): 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 Astronomy
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2005
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 128 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0195161734
• | ISBN-13: 9780195161731