It seems like an odd question at first. Of course he didn't. No one invented the Solar System-unless you're going to suggest God in some fundamental sense. And for decades after Copernicus, most ...

Margaret Wertheim, a science columnist for L.A. Weekly, is the author of "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space From Dante to the Internet." WHEN the 16th century Polish astronomer ...

Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the Catholic Church's recent declaration that Copernican astronomy was contrary to scripture and not open for ...

Setting Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo | By Christopher M. Graney “For students of the Copernican revolution, here is an ...

Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." The first telescopes, invented in 1608, consisted of two simple concave and ...

AN astronomer nowadays would find it a hard task to bring forth any facts which would throw doubt upon the truth of the Copernican theory, but it appears that there are still people amongst us who are ...

PARIS — Telespazio of Rome will provide the operations and maintenance services for the data-access system to manage Europe’s Copernicus network of environment-monitoring satellites under a contract ...