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Copernicus’s On the Revolutions…

Rare Book Library at the University of Sydney. Origins of Modernity Online Exhibition: Cosmology and Astronomy – Copernicus.

2002. http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/libraries/rare/modernity/copernicus.html (Sept. 6, 2010).

Heliocentric Model

NASA Earth Observatory. Feature Article: Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea that Launched the Scientific Revolution. 2009.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OrbitsHistory/ (Sept. 6, 2010).

Copernicus: Fame After His Lifetime

Warszawa.com. Warsaw Monuments. N.d. http://www.warszawa.com/cmarter.asp?doc=1748 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Denton, William. The FRBR Blog. De Revolutionius. 2007. http://www.frbr.org/2007/02/22/de-revolutionibus (Sept. 22, 2010).

Contrary to popular opinion, Brahe, Kepler and Galileo were all known to have owned copies of On the Revolutions…

Now He’s Worth $2, 210, 500

Christie’s. Lot 60, Sale 2013 – Copernicus…2009. http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5084091 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Brahe’s Universe and Uranibourg Observatory

Rice University. Galileo Project: Science – Tycho Brahe, Tychonic Universe. 2003.

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html (Sept. 6, 2010); Long, Tony. Wired. August 8, 1576: Brahe’s Palatial Gateway to the Heavens. 2007. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/dayintech_0808 (Sept. 15, 2010).

Kepler Used Brahe’s Data

Elliptical orbits of planet

PBS Online/WNET New York. Stephen Hawking’s Universe. N.d. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/kepler.html (Sept.

15, 2010).

Galileo’s Telescope

Museo Galileo. Institute and Museum of the History of Science. Multimedia Catalogue. 2010.

http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/museum/esim.asp?c=405001 (Sept. 6, 2010).

Phases of Venus, 1623

International Year of Astronomy 2009. Graphic Description of Venus Phases. 2009.

http://www.astronomy2009.org/resources/multimedia/images/detail/galileo_12/ (Sept. 6, 2010).

Moons of Jupiter, 1610

NASA. Solar System Exploration – Galileo’s Journal. 2008. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=7303 (Sept. 6,

2010).

Galileo’s Dialogo, 1632

Library of Congress – European Collections. 2005 Science and Technology. http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/guide/science.html (Sept. 15,

2010).

Aristotle, Ptolemy and Copernicus discussing the universe