Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus with planets and orbital diagrams. In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that ...

American writer Dan Brown released The Da Vinci Code in 2003. A mystery novel that tracks the secret surrounding the Holy Grail of Jesus through ciphers hidden in the works of Leonardo S.p.A., a ...

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The Leiden Sphaera — the dynamic model of the solar system pictured above — was built around 1670 by Dutch clockmaker Steven Tracy. The impressive cosmic model measures 1.5 meters across, and is ...

Christies will auction a work of considerable scientific gravitas on July 13 in London. It is a first edition of the first printed book to propose that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Rheticus ...

The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and that everything else – planets, asteroids, comets and the rest – revolves around it. Prior to heliocentrism, ...