Ronald Brashear
Auteur van Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy
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- Brashear, Ronald
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- 1954-12-24
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- USA
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- Nuremberg, Germany
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- Johns Hopkins University
University of Louisville - Beroepen
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historian of astronomy
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- Smithsonian Institution
Huntington Library
American Astronomical Society
Chemical Heritage Foundation
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The history of astronomy is marked with observations that failed to conform to philosophical beliefs and with the social, political, and spiritual collisions these inconsistencies brought. The ancient Greeks knew the Earth must dominate the universe, but their observations of irregular planetary movements did not easily confirm their conviction. Nicholas Copernicus, an official of the Catholic Church in Poland, articulated a theory of a heliocentric universe--but he did so cautiously, publishing his work in the year he died in 1543. More than a half-century later, Galileo looked at the Moon through one of the earliest telescopes and used this new perspective to defend the Copernican model, for which he spent the last decade of his life in prison. The copy of Copernicus's De Revolutionibus now in the Huntington's collections was once owned by Edwin Hubble, who made extraordinary discoveries 75 years ago while perusing the night skies from California's Mount Wilson Observatory.… (meer)