Title:
Recentering the universe : the radical theories of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo / Ron Miller.
ISBN:
9780761358855
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
88 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
A world of Greek ideas -- The copper merchant's son -- Gathering storm -- The reluctant astrologer -- Astronomy on trial -- The lonely giant -- The new universe -- The idea that wouldn't die.
Summary:
"Shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton--challenged the accepted wisdom of the ages, specifically that of the Catholic Church. "--Provided by publisher.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.8 3.0 159952.
Genre:
Interest age level:
011-018.
OCLC Number:
ocn822560038
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
Farmington~1
