Better Gutenberg
Free, beautifully formatted public-domain ebooks

The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory

by Dorothy Stimson

14 sections · Download EPUB

Start reading ›
  1. 1Dedication — The Systems of the World in 1651 According to Father R…
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Part One — An Historical Sketch of the Heliocentric — Theory of the…
  4. 4Chapter II — Copernicus and His Times
  5. 5Chapter III — The Later Development and Scientific Defense of the C…
  6. 6Part Two — The Reception of the Copernican Theory
  7. 7Chapter II — Bruno and Galileo
  8. 8Chapter III — The Opposition and Their Arguments
  9. 9Chapter IV — The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican System
  10. 10Chapter V — The Church and the New Astronomy: Conclusion
  11. 11Appendix A — Ptolemy: Syntaxis Mathematica (Almagest)
  12. 12Appendix B — “To His Holiness, Paul III, Supreme Pontiff, Preface b…
  13. 13Appendix C
  14. 14Bibliography (of References Cited.)

← Back to The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory

Scroll to Top