The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

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Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers a new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book--Copernicus's De revolutionibus.

Author: Owen Gingerich (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge Massachusetts USA)
Format: Paperback, 320 pages, 128mm x 197mm, 231 g
Published: 2005, Penguin Putnam Inc, United States
Genre: Popular Science

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Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers a new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book--Copernicus's De revolutionibus.