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Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge

AUTHOR Arnold, Jack; Sommer, Jack; Newman, Edwin
PUBLISHER Blackstone Audiobooks (10/01/2006)
PRODUCT TYPE Audio (Compact Disc)

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As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo Galilei all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars. Their questions, and their non-religious answers, toppled the idea that man--and the Church--are at the center of the universe.

The Science and Discovery Series recreates history's four-thousand-year journey of scientific progress. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom. This is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein all make appearances.

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ISBN-13: 9780786164363
ISBN-10: 0786164360
Binding: CD-Audio (CD Standard Audio Format)
Content Language: English
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Product Dimensions: 6.36 x 0.57 x 7.50 inches
Weight: 0.29 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Price on Product - Canadian, Unabridged
Country of Origin: US
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Science | Space Science - Astronomy
Science | History
Dewey Decimal: 520
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As optics improved, man began to see the solar system. Tycho Brahe in Denmark, Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, Johannes Kepler of Germany, and Italy's Galileo Galilei all began to see a new relationship between the world and the stars. Their questions, and their non-religious answers, toppled the idea that man--and the Church--are at the center of the universe.

The Science and Discovery Series recreates history's four-thousand-year journey of scientific progress. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom. This is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, and Einstein all make appearances.

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Read by: Newman, Edwin
Edwin Newman, narrator of the Science and Discovery series, is a celebrated journalist, author, and lecturer. He was for thirty-five years a television journalist for NBC News, and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates. Mr. Newman tells the story of science and discovery in his distinctively clear and direct style.
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