Word: copernicus
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...most readers, yet it comes as a natural choice in such a list. We must bear with Mr. Wells, and remember that if it isn't a great book, it is at least as great as the others included here, for it is the chef d'ocuvre of Copernicus. Shakespeare, the invariable choice of critics, is ignored in favor of Marco Polo's "Travels". Wells considers that the latter book was responsible for the discovery...
...space have been observed and measured with increasing accuracy. Before anything definite could be learned, however, as to the actual structure of the sidereal universe in which the earth plays its ultra-microscopic part, the actual distance to many of the brighter stars had to be measured. When Copernicus promulgated the heliocentric theory in 1543 through the publication of his epoch-making book. 'De Revolution-ibus Orbium Coelestium", it was seen that the motion of the earth in its orbit about the sun should produce an apparent displacement or change in direction of a star as the observer was carried...
Popular Science-"The Earliest Predecessors of Copernicus", by Dr. C. R. Eastman '90; "Extra Digits and Digital Reductions", by Dr. C. W. Prentiss...
...their spiritual condition; but that does not solve the riddle entirely. He did not seek to take away worldly possessions and objects of love from his followers; he rather wished to put them in a position to know the true relations between earthly possessions and spiritual life. As Copernicus was the first to consider the sun the centre of the universe, so Christ put God in the centre of the great universe of human life...
...move independent as it were, the perturbations being almost imperceptible. The ancients had a general idea of the attraction of the heavenly bodies. Their speculations about the orbils were not correct. With the revival of learning in the middle ages came a renewed attention to the investigation of astronomy. Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler were the foremost students. Copernicus renewed the rejected idea that the sun was the centre of the system of planets. Tycho, a rich nobleman in Denmark, established the first observatory. Kepler investigated he careful observations and deduced the fact that the planets moved in ellipses; he established...