TY - BOOK ID - 77868500 TI - Nicolaus Copernicus : making the Earth a planet AU - Gingerich, Owen AU - MacLachlan, James H. PY - 2005 SN - 0198036604 1429462124 9780198036609 9781429462129 9780195161731 0195161734 PB - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Astronomers KW - Copernicus, Nicolaus, KW - Copernicus, Nicolaus KW - Copernic, Nicolas KW - Kopernik, Mikołaj UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868500 AB - Nicolaus Copernicus launched a quiet revolution. No scientist so radically transformed our understanding of our place in the universe as this curious bishop's doctor and church official. In his quest to discover a beautiful and coherent system to describe the motions of the planets, Copernicus placed the sun in the center of the system and made the earth a planet traveling around the sun. ER -