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Many scientists look at the universe and conclude we are here by chance. The astronomer and historian Owen Gingerich looks at the same evidence—and ...
1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres),...
Taking Johannes Kepler as his guide, Gingerich argues that an individual can be both a creative scientist and a believer in divine design--that indeed...
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronomer who "stopped the sun and set the earth in motion." ...
(Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566)
The Annotated Census lists and describes - on the basis of direct examination - all of the 560 located copies of the first and second editions of Cope...
Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
Examines how the technical 16th-century treatise launched a revolution more profound than the Reformation, and how copies have evolved into million-do...
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
The Eye of Heaven explores the development of astronomy with emphasis on historical context, the work habits of astonomers, and the role of creativity...
Making the Earth a Planet
A brief biography of Nicolaus Copernicus, the doctor, lawyer, and church official who developed the theory that the planets revolved around the sun, a...
Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century Cosmology
Contents: Introduction; (1) The Libraries of Tycho Brahe & of Paul Wittich: The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations; Master Paul Witt...
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New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805
These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble thos...
"from Doubt to Astonishment"
A facsimile of a copy of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius in the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections....
Readings from scientific American. With introductions by Owen Gingerich
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Largely unknown outside his homeland, Jan Matejko (1838-1893) is widely regarded as the national painter of Poland, where he is revered for his huge, ...
For Years -2000 to +2000 by 10-day Intervals
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Goshen Conference on Religion and Science
Treasures from the Royal Observatory's Crawford Collection : an Exhibition Held at the National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, 8 October -31 December 1994
Studies on the Works of Copernicus and Biographical Materials. Part one