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Tables of Contents for Moving Heaven and Earth
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
iv
You'd Have to Be Crazy to Say the Earth Moves
1
11
Science or insanity?
1
3
Nothing new under the Sun
4
6
Astronomy rules, OK?
10
2
Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves?
12
44
Heavenly orbs
12
5
Science or art?
17
10
Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology
27
8
How to avoid a crisis: the medieval stand-off
35
11
How to create a crisis: Nicolaus Copernicus, cosmologist
46
10
Who Was Copernicus?
56
27
Why Copernicus?
56
1
Life and times
57
9
Renaissance man
66
12
Renaissance mathematician
78
5
What Was the Reaction?
83
36
Small beginnings
83
1
Copernicus and the astronomers
84
9
Copernicus and the Churches
93
17
Copernicus and the Aristotelians
110
9
What Difference Did it Make?
119
23
A world of difference
119
3
One physics or two?
122
3
How the Earth moves
125
12
Space: the final frontier
137
5
Last Words
142
4
Glossary
146
8
Further Reading
154