Скачать или смотреть The birth of modern science.....(Copernican Revolution)

We have become accustomed to the modern view of our place in the universe. Images of our planet taken from space leave little doubt that Earth is round, and no one seriously questions the idea that we orbit the Sun. Yet there was a time, not so long ago, when our ancestors maintained that Earth was flat and lay at the center of all things. Our view of the universe? and of ourselves—has undergone a radical transformation since those early days. Earth has become a planet like many others, and humankind has been torn from its throne at the center of the cosmos and relegated to a rather unremarkable position on the periphery of the Milky Way Galaxy. But we have been amply compensated for our loss of prominence—we have gained a wealth of scientific knowledge in the process. The story of how all this came about is the story of the rise of the scientific method and the genesis of modern astronomy.