The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
Gingerich, Owen
ISBN 10: 0143034766 ISBN 13: 9780143034766
Published by Penguin Books, 2005
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Examines how De revolutionibus, the technical sixteenth-century treatise by Nicolaus Copernicus, helped launch a revolution more profound than the Reformation and how the six hundred surviving copies have evolved into million-dollar cultural icons. Reprint.
About the Author: Owen Gingerich is senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and research professor of astronomy and the history of science at Harvard University.
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Title: The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the ...
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good