TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gingerich,Owen
AU  - MacLachlan,James H.
TI  - Nicolaus Copernicus: making the Earth a planet 
T2  - Oxford portraits in science
SN  - 9780198036609
AV  - QB36.C8 G46 2005eb
U1  - 520/.92B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Copernicus, Nicolaus,
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Poland
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Astronomes
KW  - Pologne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION
KW  - Biography & Autobiography
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Science & Nature
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index
N2  - Annotation; Born in Poland in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the sun. Today it is hard to imagine our solar system any other way, but for his time Copernicus's idea was earthshaking. In 1616 the church banned his bookRevolutionsbecause it contradicted the accepted notion that God placed Earth in the center of the universe. Even though those who knew of his work considered his idea dangerous, Revolutionsremained of interest only to other scientists for many years. It took almost two hundred years for his concept of a sun-centered system to reach the general public. None the less, what Copernicus set out in his remarkable text truly revolutionized science. For this, Copernicus, a quiet doctor who made a tremendous leap of imagination, is considered the father of the Scientific Revolution
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