It seems like an odd question at first. Of course he didn't. No one invented the Solar System-unless you're going to suggest God in some fundamental sense. And for decades after Copernicus, most ...

Margaret Wertheim, a science columnist for L.A. Weekly, is the author of "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space From Dante to the Internet." WHEN the 16th century Polish astronomer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover science and technology. Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the ...

Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo | By Christopher M. Graney “For students of the Copernican revolution, here is an ...

Revolutions in science don’t come that often, but the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres) published in 1543 certainly caused one. The work by Nicolas ...

AN astronomer nowadays would find it a hard task to bring forth any facts which would throw doubt upon the truth of the Copernican theory, but it appears that there are still people amongst us who are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Since 1950, The British Journal for the Philosophy of ...

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