When Nicolaus Copernicus stated that Earth revolves around the sun, he initiated a centuries-long conflict between propo
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Provides an in-depth look at the development of Copernicus's theory, the effect it had on the lives of scientists w
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This is a highly original, wide-ranging, and unorthodox discourse on the idea of philosophy contained in Kant's maj
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The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized
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In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near
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This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a
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Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.
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Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause o
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