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Tells the story of Owen Gingerich s quest to visit every surviving copy of one of the world s great books. 1543 saw the pub. of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the sun, & not the earth, at the center of the universe. But did anyone take notice? Gingerich was intrigued by Arthur Koestler s claim that 16th-century Europe paid little attention to the groundbreaking masterpiece. He embarked on a 30-year odyssey to examine every extant copy to prove Koestler wrong. Gingerich uncovered a treasure trove of material on the life of a book and the evolution of an idea. Illus.
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- PublisherHeinemann
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1422357384
- ISBN 13 9781422357385
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages306
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