The sleepwalkers : a history of man's changing vision of the Universe / Arthur Koestler ; with an introduction by Herbert Butterfield
1964, First Edition. Harmondsworth : Penguin. First Penguin edition. Good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Cover torn. Some page corners missing. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #452150
Physical description; 623 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-557) and index. Contents; Part 1: The heroic age. Dawn ; The harmony of the spheres ; The earth adrift ; The failure of nerve ; The divorce from reality ; Chronological table for part one -- Part 2: Dark interlude. The rectangular universe ; The walled-in universe ; The universe of the schoolmen ; Chronological table for part two -- Part 3: The timid canon. The life of Copernicus ; The system of Copernicus ; Chronological table for part three -- Part 4: The watershed. The young Kepler ; The 'cosmic mystery' ; Growing pains ; Tycho de Brahe ; Tycho and Kepler ; The giving of the laws ; Kepler depressed ; Kepler and Galileo ; Chaos and harmony ; Computing a bride ; The last years -- Part 5: The parting of the ways. The burden of proof ; The trial of Galileo ; The Newtonian synthesis ; Chronological table for parts four and five -- Epilogue. Subjects; Astronomy History. Religion and science History. Astronomy. Religion and science. Universe Theories, history. Universe Theories ca B.C.3000-A.D.1687. Universe Theories ca B.C.3000-A.D.1687 Texts.
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