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- Communes and cults / by Gay, Kathlyn.(CARDINAL)509053;
MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119) and index.Discusses the development of various communes and cults including the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons, and profiles such fanatical leaders as Jim Jones and David Koresh.- Subjects: Utopian fiction.; Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion; Christian communities; Utopias; Cults; Christian communities.;
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- Recentering the universe : the radical theories of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo / by Miller, Ron,1947-(CARDINAL)316592;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-84) and index.A world of Greek ideas -- The copper merchant's son -- Gathering storm -- The reluctant astrologer -- Astronomy on trial -- The lonely giant -- The new universe -- The idea that wouldn't die."This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton--challenged the accepted wisdom of the ages, specifically that of the Catholic Church. Galileo was accordingly tried and condemned to house arrest in 1633; the works of many others were banned. Not until the late 1900s did the Church revisit the Galileo case, ultimately concluding that it had made a mistake in suggesting that humans must accept biblical cosmology in literal terms. The book also includes a fascinating chapter exploring sects such as the 19th-century Muggletonians, the 20th-century Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, and the 21st-century Association of Biblical Astronomy, all of which insist(ed) on variations of a geocentric cosmology."--Provided by publisher.011-018.1040LAccelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Astronomy; Astronomy;
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