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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy By Stephen Hawking Unaccustomed Earth returns to theIn On the Shoulders of Giants, Stephen Hawking brings together the greatest works by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein, showing how their pioneering discoveries changed the way we see the world. From Copernicus revolutionary claim that the earth orbits the sun and Keplers development of the laws of planetary motion to Einsteins interweaving of time and space, each scientist built on the theories of their predecessors to answer the