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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Walker, 2011Edition: 1st U.S. editionDescription: xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802717931
  • 0802717934
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • 520.92 S677m
Contents:
pt. 1. Prelude. 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 -- part 2. Interplay. "And the sun stood still" : act I -- "And the sun stood still" : act II -- part 3. Aftermath. The first account -- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres -- The Basel edition -- Epitome of copernican astronomy -- Dialogue concerning 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.

pt. 1. Prelude. 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 -- part 2. Interplay. "And the sun stood still" : act I -- "And the sun stood still" : act II -- part 3. Aftermath. The first account -- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres -- The Basel edition -- Epitome of copernican astronomy -- Dialogue concerning the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican -- An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus -- Thanksgiving.

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.

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A non scholarly book recounting the life, achievements and theories of the 16th century astronomer, academic and scholar Nicolaus Copernicus (born Poland 1473) who first postulated a heliocentric (rather than geocentric) universe.

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