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内容提要:
当尼古拉斯·哥白尼宣布地球不是静止不动,也不是位于宇宙中心、而是围绕太阳运行时,他便引起了双重的动荡;一场全面的科学革命和教会的一片恐慌,并最终导致伽利略在罗马异端裁判所受审。
哥白尼播下了使科学演变成现代文化主流的种子,它对于我们宇宙观的形成也至关重要。本书作者不仅解释了这些变化是怎样伴随哥白尼理论而产生的,而且还揭示了为什么是哥白尼率先得出了地球在快速运动这一似乎荒谬绝伦、令人难以置信的观点。
作者简介:
约翰·亨利,现为英国爱丁堡大学高级讲师。
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Acknowledgements
1 You'd Have to Be Crazy to Say the Earth Moves Science or insanity? Nothing new under the Sun Astronomy rules, OK? 2 Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves? Heavenly orbs Science or art? Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology How to avoid a crisis:the medieval stand-off How to create a crisis : Nicolaus Copernicus,cosmologist 3 Who Was Copernicus? Why Copernicus? Life and times Renaissance man Renaissance mathematician 4 What Was the Reaction? Small beginnings Copernicus and the astronomers Copernicus and the Churches Copernicus and the Aristotelians 5 What Difference Did it Make? A world of difference One physics or two? How the Earth moves Space:the final frontier 6 Last Words Glossary Further Reading |