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Acknowledgements 2

Science or insanity? 2

Nothing new under the Sun 6

Astronomy rules,OK? 13

2 Why Did Copernicus Say the Earth Moves? 16

Heavenly orbs 17

Science or art? 23

Ptolemy and the decline of cosmology 35

How to avoid a crisis : the medieval stand-off 44

How to create a crisis : Nicolaus Copernicus,cosmologist 58

3 Who Was Copernicus? 69

Why Copernicus? 70

Life and times 71

Renaissance man 82

Renaissance mathematician 96

4 What Was the Reaction? 103

Small beginnings 104

Copernicus and the astronomers 105

Copernicus and the Churches 115

Copernicus and the Aristotelians 136

5 What Difference Did it Make? 147

A world of difference 148

One physics or two? 151

How the Earth moves 155

Space : the final frontier 170

6 Last Words 176

Glossary 182

Further Reading 192