Moving Heaven and Earth

Machine generated contents note: 1.You'd Have to Be Crazy to Say the Earth Moves Science or insanity? Nothing new under the Sun Astronomy rules, OK? 2.Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves? Heavenly orbs Science or art? Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology How to avoid a crisis: the medieval stand-off How to create a crisis: Nicolaus Copernicus, cosmologist 3.Who Was Copernicus? Why Copernicus? Life and times Renaissance man Renaissance mathematician 4.What Was the Reaction? Small beginnings Copernicus and the astronomers Copernicus and the Churches Copernicus and the Aristotelians 5.What Difference Did it Make? A world of difference One physics or two? How the Earth moves Space: the final frontier.