This is the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and how his radical idea that the Earth goes around the Sun changed the World. The book is well written and places Copernicus' ideas in their historical context by charting the development of man's view of the universe from the ancient Greeks onwards. Since Copernicus's ideas led eventually to the trail of Galileo it would be very easy to present this story as the conflict of Church versus enlightenment. This is not how John Henry presents it, indeed he shows how it was Kepler's very faith that led him to his laws of orbital motion. Recommended.
Icon Books, 156 pages
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