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Owen Gingerich

senior astronomer emeritus, Smithsonian

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Owen Gingerich is Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. [more]

Pluto: Planetary Peril in Prague

Owen Gingerich

April 4, 2007

01:02:16

Owen Gingerich, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, explains how Pluto was recently put into category different from the other planets.

Chasing the Masterpiece of Copernicus

Owen Gingerich

March 25, 2004

01:12:21

Owen Gingerich one of the world's leading authorities on Galileo and Copernicus, shares his 30-year obsession with the fact that shortly before his death in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibu.

God's Universe

Author: Owen Gingerich

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (2006)

Binding: Hardcover, 160 pages

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

Author: Owen Gingerich

Publisher: Walker & Company (2004)

Binding: Hardcover, 306 pages

The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (Masters of Modern Physics)

Author: Owen Gingerich

Publisher: Springer (1997)

Binding: Hardcover, 458 pages

Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet

Author: Owen Gingerich, James MacLachlan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (2005)

Binding: Hardcover, 128 pages

The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History

Author: Owen Gingerich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1992)

Binding: Hardcover, 316 pages

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