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. In the late fifteen-century, the earth s ...

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about. In the late fifteen-century, the earth stood motionless at the centre 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 centre of creation; the earth just another planet hurtling through empty, near-infinite space. This is the story of an astonishing change, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology - Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Isaac Newton od authora Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, René Descartes, Isaac Newton a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz