TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Ron TI - Recentering the universe: the radical theories of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo SN - 9781467716628 AV - QB15 .R434 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Minneapolis PB - Twenty-First Century Books KW - Astronomy KW - History KW - Juvenile literature KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; A world of Greek ideas --; The copper merchant's son --; Gathering storm --; The reluctant astrologer --; Astronomy on trial --; The lonely giant --; The new universe --; The idea that wouldn't die; 2; b N2 - "This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton--challenged the accepted wisdom of the ages, specifically that of the Catholic Church. Galileo was accordingly tried and condemned to house arrest in 1633; the works of many others were banned. Not until the late 1900s did the Church revisit the Galileo case, ultimately concluding that it had made a mistake in suggesting that humans must accept biblical cosmology in literal terms. The book also includes a fascinating chapter exploring sects such as the 19th-century Muggletonians, the 20th-century Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, and the 21st-century Association of Biblical Astronomy, all of which insist(ed) on variations of a geocentric cosmology."--Provided by publisher UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=611002&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -