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Heaven on Earth audiobook

  • By: L. S. Fauber
  • Narrator: Stephen Bowlby
  • Category: Astronomy, Science
  • Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
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Heaven on Earth Audiobook Summary

A vivid narrative that connects the lives off our great astronomers as they discovered, refined, and popularized the first major scientific discovery of the modern era: that the earth moves around the sun

Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people used nothing more than their naked eye to fathom what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the 1500s–of different nationality, age, religion, and class–collaborate to discover that the earth revolved around the sun? With this radical discovery that went against the Church, they created our contemporary world–and with it, the uneasy conditions of modern life.

Heaven on Earth is an intimate examination of this scientific family–that of Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei. Fauber juxtaposes their scientific work with insight into their personal lives and political considerations, which shaped their pursuit of knowledge. Uniquely, he shows how their intergenerational collaboration was actually what made the scientific revolution possible.

Ranging from the birth of astronomy and the methods of early scientific research, Fauber reveals the human story that underlies this civilization altering discovery. And, contrary to the competitive nature of research today, collaboration was key to early scientific discovery. Before the rise of university research institutions, deep thinkers only had each other. They created a kind of family, related to each other via intellectual pursuit rather than blood.

Filled with rich characters and sweeping historical scope, Heaven on Earth reveals how the strong connections between these pillars of intellectual history moved science forward–and how, without them, we might have waited a long time for a heliocentric model of the universe.

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Heaven on Earth Audiobook Narrator

Stephen Bowlby is the narrator of Heaven on Earth audiobook that was written by L. S. Fauber

Stephen Bowlby is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.

About the Author(s) of Heaven on Earth

L. S. Fauber is the author of Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth Full Details

Narrator Stephen Bowlby
Length 10 hours 35 minutes
Author L. S. Fauber
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date March 29, 2024
ISBN 9781094062808

Subjects

The publisher of the Heaven on Earth is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Astronomy, Science

Additional info

The publisher of the Heaven on Earth is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781094062808.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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