Acknowledgements
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
6 Last Words
Glossary
Further Reading
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