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 ...

Nearly a half-millennium ago, Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus published his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, forever changing our view of the universe and our place within ...

The next total solar eclipse may not occur in the United States for another two decades, but fans of astronomy will soon have a chance to dive deep into the cosmos in a slightly different way. In June ...

It was in 1543 that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the 1,400 year dominance of Ptolemaic cosmology when he published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An open section of a book. A first edition of Nicolaus Copernicus' groundbreaking work, in which the Polish astronomer proposed ...

A previously unknown first edition copy of Nicolas Copernicus’ landmark scientific text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), sold at auction for £277,200 ...

Swedish and polish researchers now publish results from the analysis of the putative remains of Copernicus. A DNA-analysis of shed of hairs found in a book from Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rare 1543 Nuremberg Press private copy of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres is for sale at the 58th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens ...

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 ...