A more perfect heaven : how Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos / Dava Sobel.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Walker, 2011Edition: 1st U.S. editionDescription: xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780802717931
- 0802717934
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 -- Influence
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Copernicus Nicolaus, 1473-1543
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Copernicus, Nicolaus)
- Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Astronomy
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Solar system
- Solar system
- Solar system
- Copernicus geocentric
- Scientific instrument
- 520.92 S677m
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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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