NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sun-2, Orbital Period, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
13 Dec 2016
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Los s of ancie nt gre e k te xts (la tin be ca me the officia l la ngua ge of s chola rs hip) The almagest: is la mic s chola rs cre a te d s ta r ca ta logue s in which the s ta rs we re re na me d with ara bic de s criptions . This re a liza tion s howe d: a fixe d ea rth a nd a moving ea rth a re e quiva le nt from our pe rs pe ctive on ea rth. S un: copernicus" model was publicly ridiculed by a few christian scholars, but some e ncoura ge d him to publis h his full the ory, 1543: he published his complete model in de revolutionibus .
