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060 4 _a520.92 S677m
100 1 _aSobel, Dava,
_eauthor.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84010041
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245 1 2 _aA more perfect heaven :
_bhow Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos /
_cDava Sobel.
250 _a1st U.S. edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bWalker,
_c2011.
300 _axiv, 273 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
336 _astill image
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336 _acartographic image
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
505 0 _apt. 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.
520 _aTraces 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.
562 _331560000044483
_b19259
590 _aA 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.
600 1 0 _aCopernicus, Nicolaus,
_d1473-1543
_xInfluence.
600 1 0 _aCopernicus, Nicolaus,
_d1473-1543.
_tDe revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
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600 1 2 _aCopernicus Nicolaus,
_d1473-1543.
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600 1 7 _aCopernicus, Nicolaus,
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630 0 7 _aDe revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Copernicus, Nicolaus)
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650 0 _aAstronomy.
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650 2 _aAstronomy
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650 7 _aAstronomy.
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650 7 _aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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_0(OCoLC)fst00972484
651 0 _aSolar system.
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651 2 _aSolar system.
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651 7 _aSolar system.
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653 3 _aCopernicus geocentric
653 0 _aScientific instrument
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