It Started with Copernicus

It Started with Copernicus

How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

by Howard Margolis

224 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780071385077
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Social theorist Margolis points out that Copernicus's great discovery was not that the Earth revolved around the sun--since Aristarchus had proposed it 1,800 years earlier--but that entertaining such a seemingly unlikely idea would lay the foundations of modern science. 10 illustrations.

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