The First Copernican. Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution.
Language: English
Published by Walker & Company, New York, 2006
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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264pp, index, notes, appendix, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. In 1539 Georg Rheticus set off on an arduous journey to Poland to meet the elderly but not-yet-famous astronomer Copernicus. While Copernicus had yet to publish anyhting on the new cosmology rumours had abounded for years about his revolutionary new theory. Intending to stay a month, Rheticus ended up staying for three years. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- The First Copernican. Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution.
- Author
- Danielson, Dennis.
- Publisher
- Walker & Company, New York
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0802715303
- ISBN 13
- 9780802715302
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Biography, Science, Technical & Mathematics
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Dennis Danielson is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He has served as a member of the History-of-Astonomy Committee for the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, and is a member of the Historical Astronomy division of the American Astronomical Society. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Physics and the Journal for the History of Astronomy. He is the editor of the acclaimed anthology of cosmological writings, The Book of the Cosmos. He lives in Vancouver, BC.
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