Carbondale’s First of Two (Almost Full) Days in the Sun Carbondale, Illinois is arguably the preeminent location in the United States for viewing the solar eclipse on August 21. That is not only ...

Henrietta, N.Y. — A piece of science history now sits at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nicolaus Copernicus'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) ...

Foreword; Preface; Contents; Chapter-1; The Origins of Astronomy; Human Experience of the Sky; Figures in the Sky: The Constellations; The Ancients' Astronomy; Chapter-2; The Babylonians; The ...

1. Perhaps the greatest conceptual earthquake in the history of civilization was the Copernican Revolution. Prior to Copernicus, there were two realms: the celestial and the terrestrial. Celestial ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Since 1950, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (BJPS) has presented the best new work in the discipline. An ...

It doesn't happen often, but there are times when a single book turns the world on its head. Isaac Newton's Principia unraveled the mystery of gravity. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species ...

The 400th anniversary of the publication of Copernicus’ theory that the sun is the center of the universe and not the earth, was marked at the Hebrew University today at ceremonies presided over by Dr ...