Title Information
QB41.C763V88 2006
Copies In
: 1
Copies Owned: 1
Book
TITLE:
Uncentering the Earth : Copernicus and The revolutions of the heavenly spheres / William T. Vollmann.
AUTHOR:
Vollmann, William T.
SERIES:
Great discoveries
PUBLISHED:
New York : Norton, c2006.
DESCRIPTION:
295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
EDITION:
1st ed.
NOTES:
"Atlas books."
NOTES:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294).
NOTES:
Why the universe screams -- Exegesis: Osiander's preface and I.1-4 -- What we believed: cosmology -- Exegesis: I.5 -- What we believed: motion -- Exegesis: I.5 (cont'd)-I.9 -- The limits of observation in 1543 -- Exegesis: I.10-14 -- Orbits of Venus -- Exegesis: Book II -- What we believed: scriptures -- Exegesis: Book III -- Silent to the end -- Exegesis: Book IV -- The pillars of Hercules -- Exegesis: Book V -- Assessments -- Exegesis: Book VI -- Simplicity -- Burnings.
SUBJECT:
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium caelestium.
SUBJECT:
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543--Influence.
SUBJECT:
Solar system--Early works to 1800.
SUBJECT:
Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
©2003 Follett Software Company
Title Information
Title Information