Though much of the story in Dava Sobel’s “A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos” (Walker & Co.: 274 pp., $25) is set up as you might find in any history book, the heart of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A historic library in Germany that was ravaged by fire in 2004 has restored 118,000 books including a 471-year-old copy of astronomer Copernicus' work in which he argued the sun, ...

Few individuals have done as much to overturn people’s established view of The Way Things Are as Niklas Koppernigk, known to history by the Latinized version of his name, Nicolaus Copernicus. While he ...

There might be an undiscovered treatise hidden within a Renaissance astronomy book. One of two astronomy books recently donated to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), located west of Buffalo ...

A rare group of books featuring volumes by Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei that were collected by the late astronomer—and eclipse chaser—Jay Pasachoff is coming to the auction ...

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Daring to defy a centuries-old belief, Polish cleric and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus spun the Earth on its axis and cast it as just one of several planets shuffling around the sun. Published in ...