books about: copernicus

books about: copernicus

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Copernicus

On the Revolutions: Nicholas Copernicus Complete Works (Foundations of Natural History)
Nicholas Copernicus

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

In 1973, on the 500th anniversary of Copernicus's birth, the Polish Academy of Sciences announced its intention to publish all of the astronomer's extant works, both in their original Latin and in modern translations. Here, available for the first time in softcover, are Edward Rosen's authoritative English translations and commentaries.

Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began

Jack Repcheck

Simon & Schuster, 2007

A vivid trip back in time
Reading about science and scientists can sometimes be tedious. Only the best writers are able to balance the science and the story that keeps the lay person reading. Jack Repcheck does an excellent job of teaching a little science while telling a wonderful story. He ...

With Fire and Sword (The Trilogy, Book I)

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Copernicus Society of America / Hippocrene Books, 1991

A great book, but the translation could be better
I've read Kuniczak's translation of the Trilogy and greatly enjoyed it. It was my introduction to Seinkiewicz. However, while reading it, it seemed somehow incoherent, like something was missing. It also seemed impossible that the companions of Zagloba would be so ...

Revolutionizing Christian Stewardship for the 21st Century: Lessons from Copernicus

Dan R. Dick

Discipleship Resources, 1998

Keeping God at the Center of Giving
In my capacity as an attorney, stewardship consultant, capital campaign leader, financial teacher and author (The Believer's Guide to Legal Issues), I've read a lot of books and materials on Christian stewardship. Seldom do I come across a thinker in the realm of ...

On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)

Nicolaus Copernicus, Stephen Hawking

Running Press, 2004

Planetary distances is "the chief point of all"
Copernicus puts the sun in the center of the universe. This is a great achievement not on metaphysical or philosophical grounds but rather because it provides new quantitative information about the universe, namely planetary distances. Suppose the earth is at the ...

Science and Religion, 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus
Edward Grant

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

Historian Edward Grant illuminates how today's scientific culture originated with the religious thinkers of the Middle Ages. In the early centuries of Christianity, Christians studied science and natural philosophy only to the extent that these subjects proved useful for a better understanding of the Christian faith, not to acquire knowledge for ...

The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

Thomas S. Kuhn

Harvard University Press, 1992

Case Study of a Scientific Revolution
"The Copernican Revolution" tells the epochal story of how the earth-centered cosmology of Ptolemy was replaced by the sun-centered cosmology of Copernicus and Kepler. The book is a classic. Kuhn understood how ideas influence each other and hang together in a ...

Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond

Gerald Holton, Stephen G. Brush

Rutgers University Press, 2001

THE BEST introduction to physics concepts and history
Having studied Holton's Harvard Project Physics textbook as a senior in high school thirty years ago, I was delighted to find this updated textbook by Holton and Brush. I have used Physics, The Human Adventure several times as one of the textbooks for an entry level ...

Copernicus, Darwin, Freud: Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science
Friedel Weinert

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Using Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism as examples of scientific traditions, Copernicus, Darwin and Freud takes a philosophical look at these three revolutions in thought to illustrate the connections between science and philosophy. Shows how these revolutions in thought lead to philosophical consequences Provides extended case ...

Science and Religion, 1450--1900: From Copernicus to Darwin

Richard G. Olson

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

A bumpy ride
If God doesn't exist, one doesn't lose much by belief in God; however, if God does exist and one doesn't believe, the cost can be dramatic. Therefore, one should believe in God, for the odds are then in one's favour. This is sometimes called Pascal's Wager, after the ...

Doctor Copernicus

John Banville

Vintage, 1993

Could Life Really Have Been So Difficult?
Perhaps, the most salient quality of Mr. Baneville's novel is the medieval context in which it placed. This is a world where syphilis is a terminal and disfiguring disease, where bandits and brigands roam the countryside raping and looting at will. It is a world ...

Nicolaus Copernicus: The Earth Is a Planet

Dennis B. Fradin

Mondo Publishing, 2004

Wonderful, Meaty and Beautifully Illustrated
My [...] year-old astronomer-in-the-making adores Dennis Fradin's Copernicus, the reading of which has led to a desire to visit Frombork and its Nicolaus Copernicus Museum! That is the power of this beautifully illustrated biography, which touches on the social ...

The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (Masters of Modern Physics)

Owen Gingerich

AIP Press, 1993

Required reading!
This book is essential for anybody who wants to understand what Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler really did. It's a bit more technical than "The Great Copernicus Chase", but if you're serious, you'll appreciate it. And if you're really serious, you'll get a copy of the ...

The Ash Wednesday Supper (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series)

Giordano Bruno

University of Toronto Press, 1995

Good book, good translation, questionable interpretation
Giordan Bruno is still today a controversial philosopher. In this book he exposes his philosophical/cosmological ideas and, in doing so, he uses the new Copernican theory as the basis for a new, daring vision of the universe. Anybody who would like to familiarize ...

Fire in the Steppe [Pan Wolodyjowski] (The Trilogy, Book III)

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Copernicus Society of America / Hippocrene Books, 1992

Wonderful Epics and Don't be Afraid of Epics
I am not Polish or of Polish descent nor does one have to be to read and enjoy these masterpieces. I could not put down any of the books in this series. The heroes, the villians and the women were enthralling. I particularly enjoyed the Catholic Christian aspect of the ...