Recentering the universe

author: Miller, Ron
Describes how a group of European scientists, including Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe, Galileo, and Newton, overturned the centuries-old accepted view of a geocentric universe and how these scientists risked their reputations and even their lives to challenge the very heart of Catholic dogma and scientific tradition.
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call number/section: 1000, 523.1, 523
subjects: astronomy, history, juvenile literature, electronic books, electronic books

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Recentering the universe
Miller, Ron

This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s), and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries-old accepted view of a geocentric universe.
Schools: 21



Recentering the universe
Miller, Ron

Describes how a group of European scientists, including Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe, Galileo, and Newton, overturned the centuries-old accepted view of a geocentric universe and how these scientists risked their reputations and even their lives to challenge the very heart of Catholic dogma and scientific tradition.
Schools: 1


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