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Shadow on the Moon - A Children's Guide to the Discovery of the Solar System (Hardcover)
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Shadow on the Moon - A Children's Guide to the Discovery of the Solar System (Hardcover)
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Is the earth flat, a square, or a sphere? Geocentric or
heliocentric? How do we know? Using rhyme and imaginative
illustrations, Shadow on the Moon takes children on a scientific
journey from Aristotle and Aristarchus, through Ptolemy,
Copernicus, and Galileo, to Kepler and Newton. Among the most
profound advances in all of science is the suggestion, by Polish
astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, that the sun, rather than the
earth, is the center of the universe. His heliocentric model
upended the Ptolemaic view of an earth-centered universe that had
held sway for nearly 1400 years. Worse still, it contradicted
Aristotle, and thus was considered heretical by some. But the
so-called heresies didn't start or stop there. In the third century
BCE, two millennia before Copernicus, Aristarchus challenged
Aristotle's geocentric model of the universe. And a century after
Copernicus, using data collected by Tycho Brahe, Kepler proposed a
new model that abandoned Aristotle's perfect circles in favor of -
perish the thought! - an ellipse. Just how did this story play out
over 2000 years? And what were the key contributions along the way?
Through visuals that set the stories in their time and place and
models of the solar system that evolve page by page, Shadow on the
Moon invites parents and children to share the process of
discovery.
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