TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sobel,Dava
TI  - A more perfect heaven: how Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos 
SN  - 9780802717931
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Walker
KW  - Copernicus, Nicolaus,
KW  - Copernicus Nicolaus,
KW  - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Copernicus, Nicolaus)
KW  - fast
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Solar system
KW  - Copernicus geocentric
KW  - Scientific instrument
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -