NCT
Copernicus revolution
Reception of Copernicus’s theory and the importance of the discovery
A general introduction
Reception of the discovery in Europe – the views of the Church and of other scholars on the heliocentric theory
Post Copernican cosmological concepts
Tycho Brahe’s model
Kepler’s model
The model of a stationary state
The Big Bang model
The concept of many worlds
Contemporary cosmological reflections
The importance of Copernicus’s discovery for the development of the sciences
The importance of Copernicus’s discovery for the development of the humanities
The development of astronomy since Copernicus to the present
Astronomy before the invention of the telescope
The telescope and celestial mechanics
The nineteenth century and the birth of astrophysics
Twentieth century astronomy and cosmology
The history of astronomy in Poland until 1945