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02546aam a2200361 i 4500 001 0FFEE69488B311E39A616094DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140129010029 007 n 008 121211s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2012047665 020 $a 0761358854 020 $a 9780761358855 040 $d IaMp $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Miller, Ron, $d 1947- 245 10 $a Recentering the universe : $b the radical theories of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, and Newton / $c Ron Miller. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, MN : $b Twenty-First Century Books, $c 2014. 300 $a 88 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A world of Greek ideas -- The copper merchant's son -- The reluctant astrologer -- Astronomy on trial -- The lonely giant -- The new universe -- The idea that wouldn't die. 520 $a "This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton--challenged the accepted wisdom of the ages, specifically that of the Catholic Church. Galileo was accordingly tried and condemned to house arrest in 1633; the works of many others were banned. Not until the late 1900s did the Church revisit the Galileo case, ultimately concluding that it had made a mistake in suggesting that humans must accept biblical cosmology in literal terms. The book also includes a fascinating chapter exploring sects such as the 19th-century Muggletonians, the 20th-century Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, and the 21st-century Association of Biblical Astronomy, all of which insist(ed) on variations of a geocentric cosmology."--Provided by publisher. 521 1 $a 011-018. 526 0 $a Accelerated Reader AR $b MG+ $c 7.8 $d 3.0 $z 159952. 541 $d 20140122. 650 $a Astronomy $x History. $x Christianity $x History. 650 $a Astronomy $x History. 650 0 $a Young Adult. 941 $a 4 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006074530.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180907023631.0 952 $l VSSX062 $d 20170603014126.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20150619012137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0FFEE69488B311E39A616094DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search