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Author Sobel, Dava.

Title A more perfect heaven : how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos / Dava Sobel.

Publication Info. New York : Walker Pub., 2011.

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Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
Contents Moral, rustic, and amorous epistles -- The brief sketch -- Leases of abandoned farmsteads -- On the method of minting money -- The letter against werner -- The bread tariff -- Interplay -- And the sun stood still -- act I -- And the sun stood still -- act II -- Aftermath -- The first account -- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres -- The Basel edition, 1566 -- Epitome of copernican astronomy -- Dialogue on the two chief systems of the world: ptolemaic and copernican -- An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus -- Thanksgiving.
Summary Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
Subject Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 -- Influence.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
Solar system.
Astronomy.
ISBN 9780802717931
0802717934
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