Copernicus the Surprise Genius


	Copernicus the Surprise Genius

Mohir

12-13-2007 1:38 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6cb0eb04-a6a1-4f24-8a0d-50b1d96c8993/F61CAACB-78F0-4F24-BC25-4E3BB3183608/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/copernicus-the-surprise-genius" href="http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/copernicus-the-surprise-genius" style="font-size: 11px;">discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/copernicus-the-surprise-genius"><H3>The man who proved heliocentrism never thought his ideas would amount to much.</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/copernicus-the-surprise-genius"><P>Nicolaus Copernicus pioneered the concept of a heliocentric solar system, right? Wrong. Many other astronomers—going back to Aristotle’s time—had proposed the theory. But Copernicus was the first to support it <A target="_"blank"" href="http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-049X%2819731231%29117:6%3C513:FCTKHA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage" linkindex="59">mathematically</A>, according to Jack Repcheck in <I>Copernicus’ Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began</I> (Simon & Schuster, $25).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/copernicus-the-surprise-genius"><P>In his highly readable book, aimed at lay readers who know little about the history of astronomy, Repcheck draws a portrait of an unusual star of the scientific revolution. Copernicus was not a very focused student: He entered the university four years later than the average student and took nine years longer to graduate. He came from a wealthy family and felt no need to make a name for himself. “Copernicus should have stood no chance of making even a minor mark in astronomy,” Repcheck writes.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F61CAACB-78F0-4F24-BC25-4E3BB3183608/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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