Chapter 4: The Copernican Revolution

Chapter sections:

• 4.1 The European Renaissance
• 4.2 The Heliocentric Universe of Nicolaus Copernicus
• 4.3 The Motions of the Stars in the Heliocentric Universe
• 4.4 The Changing Seasons
• 4.5 The Source of Hipparchus’s Precession
• 4.6 The Moon’s Motions: Phases and Eclipses
• 4.7 Finally, a Natural Solution to the “Wandering Stars”
• 4.8 The Quest for Understanding Continues
• 4.9 Tycho Brahe and His Passion for Precision
• 4.10 Johannes Kepler and Planetary Orbits
• 4.11 Kepler’s Three Laws in their Original Form
• 4.12 Galileo Galilei, the First True Scientist