Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge (Science & Discovery, The Audio Classics Series)

This series of cassettes on Science and Discovery recreates one of history's most successful journeys-4000 years of scientific efforts to better understand the physical world. Science has often challenged and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent thinkers experiments and theories change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein and many others are featured. Narrator Edwin Newman is a celebrated journalist, author and lecturer. For 35 years, he was a television journalist for NBC News and he's familiar to millions as a moderator of presidential debates. Edwin Newman narrates this look into the fascinating history of astronomy. It is a history which begins at a time when people still believed that earth was the center of the universe and humankind the whole reason and purpose for the rest of creation. From Brahe and Copernicus to Kepler and Galileo, Newman shows the long intellectual journey that created a new relationship between our world and the stars.