The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order by Robert S. Westman

The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order

Robert S. Westman

704 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Questio...

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