![]() ![]() The stories of these early astronomers is captured in Ferris' narrative as part of the story of man's relationship with the universe. ![]() There were such religious objections to such a theory that Copernicus was reluctant to share his theories and Galileo was arrested by the clergy for advancing them. To Aristotle, the stars were stationary objects in the upper realm.Ĭopernicus and Galileo adapted the theory that the earth was not the center of the universe that it was instead the sun that the earth was subservient to. His hypothesis was that there was a realm below the moon and one above it and that there was no great beyond because virtually nothing existed beyond it. Someone even as brilliant and learned as Aristotle thought there were two realms of the skies. As twentieth physician Lew Thomas put it, "The greatest of all the accomplishments of twentieth-century science has been the discovery of human ignorance." Ferris takes the reader first through early man's reaction to the skies and the stars. What is obvious throughout the book, is that the more man learns the more he knows about the universe and all its creations including himself is how much he really doesn't know. It is also the history of the universe as we know it up to this point in time. ![]() "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" by Timothy Ferris is fundamentally the history of astronomy and astrophysics. ![]()
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