On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Stephen Hawking, Mikołaj Kopernik, Nicolaus Copernicus

On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

Stephen Hawking, Mikołaj Kopernik, Nicolaus Copernicus

408 pages first pub 1543 (editions)

nonfiction classics science challenging informative slow-paced

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New to our On the Shoulders of Giants series, this groundbreaking work of astronomy proposed a heliocentric universe in which planets orbited the sun-daring to challenge the Ptolemaic ideal of the earth as the center of the universe. This essay by...

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