{"product_id":"the-dawn-of-modern-cosmology-isbn-9780241360637","title":"The Dawn of Modern Cosmology","description":"\u003cb\u003eNew to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late fifteenth century, the earth stood motionless at the center of a small, ordered cosmos. Around us, it was believed, the moon, the sun, and the planets revolved in crystalline spheres, their orbits perfect, eternally unchanging circles. Just over a century later, the sun was now the center of creation; the earth just another planet hurtling through empty, near-infinite space. This is the story of an astonishing change, a transformation in human thought, about both the universe and our place within it, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Encompassing the most evocative excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, and others, and including guiding notes from renowned historian of science, Aviva Rothman, \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Modern Cosmology\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive record of one of science's greatest achievements.Introduction \u003cbr\u003e A Note on Translation \u003cbr\u003e Timeline of Key Events \u003cbr\u003e Hartmann Schedel, Seventh Day from Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 \u003cbr\u003e Nicolaus Copernicus, Little Commentary, 1514 \u003cbr\u003e Georg Joachim Rheticus, First Account, 1540 \u003cbr\u003e To the Reader, Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 \u003cbr\u003e Copernicus, Prefatory Material from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 \u003cbr\u003e Copernicus, Book One, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543 \u003cbr\u003e Copernicus, Heliocentric System from On the Revolutions, 1543 \u003cbr\u003e Copernicus, Tusi Couple from On the Revolutions,1543 \u003cbr\u003e Erasmus Reinhold, Prutenic Tables, 1551 \u003cbr\u003e Robert Recorde, The Castle of Knowledge, 1556 \u003cbr\u003e Tycho Brahe, On the New Star, 1573 \u003cbr\u003e Thomas Digges, A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs, 1576 \u003cbr\u003e Digges, Frontispiece, A Perfect Description of the Celestial Orbs, 1576 \u003cbr\u003e Diego de Zúñiga of Salamanca, Commentary on Job, 1584 \u003cbr\u003e Giordano Bruno, Ash Wednesday Supper, 1584 \u003cbr\u003e Tycho Brahe, On Recent Celestial Phenomena, 1588 \u003cbr\u003e Johannes Kepler, Cosmographic Mystery, 1596 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo Galilei and Kepler, Correspondence, 1597 \u003cbr\u003e Brahe, Instruments of a Restored Astronomy, 1598 \u003cbr\u003e William Gilbert, On the Magnet, 1600 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, The Dream, 1608 (published 1634) \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, A New Astronomy Based upon Causes, or Celestial Physics, Treated by Means of\u003cbr\u003e Commentaries on the Motions of Mars, 1609 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, Orbit of Mars, from New Astronomy, 1609 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, 1610 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, Conversation with The Starry Messenger, 1610 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, Dioptrics, 1611 \u003cbr\u003e John Donne, ‘First Anniversary: An Anatomy of the World’, 1611 \u003cbr\u003e Christoph Scheiner and Galileo, Letters on Sunspots, 1612–1613 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Letters on Sunspots, Image of Sunspots, 1613 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Letter to Benedetto Castelli, 1613 \u003cbr\u003e Simon Marius, The Jovian World, 1614 \u003cbr\u003e Johannes Locher, Mathematical Disquisitions Concerning Astronomical Controversies\u003cbr\u003e and Novelties, 1614 \u003cbr\u003e Paolo Antonio Foscarini, Letter on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion about the Mobility\u003cbr\u003e of the Earth, 1615 \u003cbr\u003e Robert Bellarmine, Letter to Foscarini, 1615 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615\u003cbr\u003e Galileo and the Inquisition, 1615–1616 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy,\u003cbr\u003e Book One, 1618 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, The Harmony of the World, 1619 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Book Four, 1620 \u003cbr\u003e Tommaso Campanella, Apologia for Galileo, 1622 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, The Assayer, 1623 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Phases of Venus from The Assayer, 1623 \u003cbr\u003e Kepler, Frontispiece, Rudolphine Tables, 1627 \u003cbr\u003e The Vatican Secretary to the Florentine Inquisitor, 24 May 1631 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Dialogue on the Great World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Frontispiece and\u003cbr\u003e Title Page, 1632 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Dialogue on the Great World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, 1632\u003cbr\u003e Campanella, Letter to Galileo, 1632 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Trial Documents, 1632–1633 \u003cbr\u003e René Descartes, The World, or a Treatise on Light, c.1629–1633 \u003cbr\u003e Descartes, Letters to Mersenne, 1633–1634 \u003cbr\u003e Galileo, Discourses and Demonstrations on Two New Sciences, 1638 \u003cbr\u003e John Wilkins, A Discovery of a World in the Moon, 1638 \u003cbr\u003e Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moon, or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales, 1638 \u003cbr\u003e Wilkins, Frontispiece, A Discourse Concerning A New World \u0026amp; Another Planet, 1640 \u003cbr\u003e Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, 1644 \u003cbr\u003e Giovanni Battista Riccioli, New Almagest, 1651 \u003cbr\u003e Riccioli, Frontispiece, New Almagest, 1651 \u003cbr\u003e Riccioli, Map of the Moon, from New Almagest, 1651 \u003cbr\u003e Andreas Cellarius, Frontispiece, Celestial Atlas, or Macrocosmic Harmonies, 1660 \u003cbr\u003e John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667\u003cbr\u003e Johannes Hevelius, Celestial Machine, 1673 \u003cbr\u003e Robert Hooke, An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observations, 1674 \u003cbr\u003e Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, 1686 \u003cbr\u003e Edmond Halley, Opening Poem to Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia), 1687\u003cbr\u003e Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia), 1687 \u003cbr\u003e Newton, Parabolic Path of a Comet from Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia), 1687 \u003cbr\u003e Newton, General Scholium from Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia), Second Edition, 1713 \u003cbr\u003e Newton, A Treatise of the System of the World, 1728 \u003cbr\u003e Frontispiece, Andrew Motte’s English Translation of Book 1 of Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1730 \u003cbr\u003e Voltaire, Frontispiece, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton, 1738 \u003cbr\u003e James Ferguson, Astronomy, Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics, 1756 \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Other Translations and Works of Interest \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cb\u003eAviva Rothman\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) is assistant professor of history at Case Western Reserve University.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302374559973,"sku":"NP9780241360637","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241360637.jpg?v=1767738945","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-dawn-of-modern-cosmology-isbn-9780241360637","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}