The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe
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Riccioli's 1651 frontispiece, which weighs his own adaptation of Tycho's system against the Copernican one, is reproduced and explained at the start of Dorothy Stimson's study of how the sun-centred theory won acceptance. Part I sketches the heliocentric idea: astronomical thought to 1400, Copernicus and his times, and the later scientific defence. Part II covers the reception, from sixteenth-century opinion and Bruno and Galileo to the arguments of the opposition and the Church and the new astronomy. Appendices carry her own translations from Ptolemy, Copernicus, Bodin and Fienus. It was printed in New York in 1917.
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- Author
- Dorothy Stimson
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 145
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Astronomy
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