Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution

From Copernicus to the Webb Telescope: How the Universe Was Redefined 🚀🔭 | Strange As It Seems

"If I have seen further, it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton

🌌 What connects a Polish monk in the 1500s with a billion-dollar space telescope hurtling through the void? In this sweeping episode of Strange As It Seems, we trace the astonishing story of how humanity came to understand its place in the cosmos—from the heretical ideas of Copernicus, to the dangerous truths unveiled by Galileo, to the revolutionary theories of Newton, Einstein, and beyond.

⭐️ Witness the moment the Church put science on trial.
📜 Discover how ancient stargazers challenged 2,000 years of accepted wisdom.
🪐 Follow the rise of the scientific method and the fall of geocentrism.
🚀 See how the James Webb Space Telescope carries the legacy of centuries of wonder, exploration, and defiance into the great unknown.

What began as a monk’s quiet thought became a flame that lit the sky.

🧠 Join Jeff Hix, curator of the Strange As It Seems archives, as he unpacks how the biggest discoveries in science came from the unlikeliest of places—and how truth, once seen, can never be un-seen.

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