Admiral of the starry sea: a tweedy 'assistant astronomer' sets sail back into time across the cosmos: Edwin Hubble.(Special Report: Masters of Discovery: The Great Inventors of the 20th Century)

U.S. News & World Report | August 17, 1998 | Copyright

A tweedy 'assistant astronomer' sets sail back into time across the cosmos The ancients believed the heavens to be a glittering celestial framework for the human race, with the planets, the sun, and stars all revolving around the Earth in majestic tribute. Copernicus in the 16th century and Galileo in the 17th began the demolition of this conceit. The Earth clearly moves around the sun, they asserted famously, distressing medieval churchmen. Then, early in the 20th century, Harlow Shapley placed the sun and its planets 50,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. ...

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