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COPERNICUS NICOLAUS THE DAWN OF MODERN COSMOLOGY

New to Penguin Classics  the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution  told through the
words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about  A Penguin Classic   In the late
fifteenth century  the earth stood motionless at the center of a small  ordered cosmos. Around
us  it was believed  the moon  the sun  and the planets revolved in crystalline spheres  their
orbits perfect  eternally unchanging circles. Just over a century later  the sun was now the
center of creation  the earth just another planet hurtling through empty  near-infinite space.
This is the story of an astonishing change  a transformation in human thought  about both the
universe and our place within it  told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians
at its heart. Encompassing the most evocative excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus
Galileo  Kepler  Descartes  Newton  and others  and including guiding notes from renowned
historian of science  Aviva Rothman  The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of
one of science's greatest achievements.

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