The Dawn of Modern Cosmology
From Copernicus to Newton
$28.28
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
4 December 2023
Summary
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about
‘How great, then, must be the incomprehensible space all the way to the furthest fixed stars? How wide and immense must be the depth of that fantastical sphere?’
In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241360637 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241360633 |
| Author: | Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Aviva Rothman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2023 |
| Weight: | 461g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 28mm |
About The Author
Nicolaus Copernicus
Aviva Rothman (External Editor, Translator)
Aviva Rothman is Associate Professor of History at Case Western University. She is a historian of science whose work focuses on the early modern period, and is the author of The Pursuit of Harmony- Kepler on Cosmos, Confession and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
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