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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-326) and index. |
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Introducing the stars -- Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolaus in the old world ; The fall of the House of Watzenrode ; In opposition ; The first Copernican ; The first account ; The first dissent ; The second account ; Postmortem -- Tycho Brahe. New stars ; A burdensome privilege ; Hven ; Urania through the years ; Treasures on the broken road ; The parvenu ; Goodbye to all that ; The outside world ; A letter received -- Johannes Kepler. Fathers, sons, ghosts ; The theological turn ; Judgment ; A letter sent ; The need for harmony ; The eyes of the bear ; Two families ; Lunacy ; Reversals of fortune ; The war on astronomy ; Ascension -- Galileo Galilei. Descent ; Upon leaving the top of the arc ; Pupils ; Horky's odyssey ; THeir rekindled friendship ; The naming of things ; The new man ; Their dying friendship ; The renaming of things ; The new man ; Their dying friendship ; The renaming of things ; First signs of night ; The animals ; Wine and women ; Two winters and a spring ; The other side of the door ; A bad memory ; A dove ; A tongue of fire ; Death and the garden ; The changing tides ; Words of his golden years ; A family man ; The dialogue ; The teacher ; Lacunae ; Life inside a box ; The four last things in cruel disorder -- Appendix: seven vignettes from the New Astronomy. |
| Summary |
Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people used nothing more than their naked eye to fathom what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the 1500's of different nationality, age, religion, and class collaborate to discover that the Earth revolved around the Sun? With this radical discovery that went against the Church, they created our contemporary world and with it, the uneasy conditions of modern life. Heaven on Earth Ranging from the birth of astronomy and the methods of early scientific research, Fauber reveals the human story that underlies this civilization altering discovery. And, contrary to the competitive nature of research today, collaboration was key to early scientific discovery. Before the rise of university research institutions, deep thinkers only had each other. They created a kind of family, related to each other via intellectual pursuit rather than blood. These men called each other brothers, fathers, and sons, and laid the foundations of modern science through familial co-work. And though the sixteenth century was far from an open society for women, there were female pioneers in this family as well, including Brahe's sister Sophie, Keplers mother, and Galileo's daughter. Heaven on Earth. |
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Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
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Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.
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Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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Astronomers -- Biography.
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Astronomy -- History -- 16th century.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781643132044
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1643132040
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| STANDARD # |
W W Norton & Co Inc, Keystone Industrial Park Attn Mike Charnogursky 800 Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 |
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