Recentering the universe

the radical theories of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton

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This book describes how a group of European scientists challenged the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe and how through their research and writings they introduced the idea of a heliocentric universe. This book recounts how a group of European scientists in the 1500s and 1600s risked their reputations and lives to overturn the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe.