Copernicus, Kepler, Tycho, and Galileo together gave us a new way of
looking at the motions in the heavens, but they could not explain why
the planets move they way the do. It was to be the work of Isaac Newton
who was to sweep away the last vestiges of the Aristotelian view of the
world and replace it with with a new, vastly more powerful predictive
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Oct 2007
Lecture 14b: Copernicus from Au2006
Because my voice recorder malfunctioned 15 minutes into my Lecture on
Copernicus on 2007 October 9, I've added this recording of my Copernicus
lecture from Autumn Quarter 2006. It is the same basic material, but
since I generally improvise on a basic outline, there will be some
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42m 1s