Word: copernicus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. Anti-Communist Koestler takes a new tack, provides an animated lecture on the cosmologists who changed men's view of the heavens, including Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo...
...recording the hammer blows of 16th and 17th century discoveries that finally put Ptolemy's epicycle machine on science's junk heap, Author Koestler offers personable profiles of the leading cosmologists-Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo-as well as lively popularizations of their thought. He also makes his book's mildly controversial point, which is almost beside the point, that these scientific greats sleepwalked their way to profound insights, with a kind of intuitive genius that turned even wrong questions into right answers...
Viruses & Reflexes. Before the reign of Peter the Great, who founded the Imperial Academy in 1724, Russia's cultural life lay smothering under a blanket of religious orthodoxy that considered everything non-Russian as heresy and the work of such men as Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from...
...Texan who can read," remarked a cynical reporter one day in the library of De-Golyer's impeccably furnished Mexican-style palace in suburban Dallas. Standing in the huge, 15ft-high room choked to the ceiling with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books for the pretty red bindings, never read a thing. Tough, stubborn, quizzical, Mr. De delighted in pulling such switches; he could sound in turn...
...additions include a gift from the Yale University Library, the "Astronomia Instaurata" of Copernicius, once owned by the first president of Harvard, Henry Dunster. This edition, printed in Amsterdam in 1617, presents Copernicus' theory of a sun-centered planetary system...