Richard Moore: A Brief History of Cosmology | Thunderbolts

The story of our collective understanding of cosmology over several millennia—as told from the western society point of view. Beginning with the epicycles of Claudius Ptolemy, celestial spheres of Nicolaus Copernicus, ellipses of Johannes Kepler, to Galileo Galilei’s discoveries, Gottfried Leibniz’s calculus, and of course, Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion….

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