The Dawn of Modern CosmologyBy: Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Ren Descartes, Isaac Newton New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground breaking scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of