ABSTRACT
Previous chapters brought us from a Ptolemaic, geocentric view of the universe to a Newtonian, heliocentric one, and on from there to that imaged for us today by the latest in space technology. This present view of the universe is explored by experts in astrophysics who assure us that, in fact, it has no centre. Our starting point, sixteenth-century Cracow, saw Copernicus poring over mathematical tables in order to reach his revolutionary conclusions. Now we listen to scientists who reach theirs by using computer data relayed back to earth from the edges of our solar system and beyond by the Hubble Space Telescope.
