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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

Hardcover • 2011 • English

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

By Dava Sobel

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About the book

By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the next two decades, Copernicus expanded his theory through hundreds of observations, while compiling in secret a book-length manuscript that tantalized mathematicians and scientists throughout Europe. ...Show more

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9780802717931

Publisher

Walker Company

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

Format

Hardcover

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