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description: As optics improved man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland Johannes Kepler of Germany and Italy's Galileo Galilei all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars. Their questions and their non-religious answers toppled the idea that man?and the Church?are at the center of the universe. The Science and Discovery series recreates history's four-thousand-year journey of scientific progress. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom. This is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers experiments and theories change and progress. Aristotle Copernicus Kepler Galileo Newton Darwin and Einstein all make appearances.
language: English
title: Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge
publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks