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Digges 1605

Leonard Digges, A Prognostication Everlasting of Right Good Effect…; Lately corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne (London, 1605) This Sun-centered cosmic section represents the first published defense of Copernicus in England, and it was printed in a work … Continue reading →

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Copernicus 1617

Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Amsterdam, 1617), 3d edition In De revolutionibus, Copernicus placed the Sun in the center of the universe and set the Earth in annual motion around the Sun. This is the 3d edition, printed in … Continue reading →

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Copernicus and Meteorology

Galileo’s World at a GlanceGallery at the Exhibit WebsiteLocation: National Weather Center. How does meteorology facilitate interdisciplinary discovery? From antiquity to the present, meteorology has always been a meeting place of many disciplines. Astronomy, optics, chemistry and the geosciences are … Continue reading →

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