This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the center, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching.

An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but

Two leading authorities on Galileo offer a brilliant revisionist look at the career of the great Italian scientist.