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New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history.Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history.Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the center. His remarkable work, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, stands as one of the greatest intellectual revolutions of all time, and profoundly influenced, among others, Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton.

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents-Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe- Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler- Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton- Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus- Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei- Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed-Great Astronomers: Edmond Halley- Great Astronomers: James Bradley- Great Astronomers: William Herschel- Great Astronomers: Pierre-Simon Laplace- Great Astronomers: William Parsons- Great Astronomers: William Rowan HamiltonAlso available :Classics Authors Super Set Serie 1 (Golden Deer Classics)Classics Authors Super Set Serie 3 (Golden Deer Classics)Classics Authors Super Set Serie 4 (Golden Deer Classics)50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 Golden Deer Classics50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 Golden Deer Classics50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 3 Golden Deer Classics

Contents:1. Prefaces and Epilogues, by William Caxton2. Dedication Of The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, by John Calvin3. Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, by Nicolaus Copernicus4. Preface to The History of the Reformation In Scotland, by John Knox5. Prefatory Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh On The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser6. Preface to the History of the World, by Sir Walter Raleigh7. Proœmium of the Instauratio Magna, Epistle Dedicatory to the Instauratio Magna, Preface to the Instauratio Magna, The Plan of the Instauratio Magna and Preface to the Novum Organum, by Francis Bacon8. Preface to the First Folio Edition of Shakespeare''s Plays, by Henrie Condell and Iohn Heminge9. Preface to the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, by Sir Isaac Newton10. Preface to Fables, Ancient and Modern, by John Dryden11. Preface to Joseph Andrews, by Henry Fielding12. Preface to the English Dictionary and Preface to Shakespeare, by Samuel Johnson13. Introduction to the Propyläen, by J. W. von Goethe14. Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Appendix to Lyrical Ballads, Preface to Poems and Essay Supplementary to Preface, by William Wordsworth15. Preface to Cromwell, by Victor Hugo16. Preface to Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman17. Introduction to the History of English Literature, by Hippolyte Adolphe TaineAlso available:The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction)50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)