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A more perfect heaven : how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos / Dava Sobel.
LIBRA QB501 .S75 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sobel, Dava.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543--Influence.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
- Solar system.
- Astronomy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker Pub., 2011.
- Summary:
- Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
- Contents:
- Moral, rustic, and amorous epistles
- The brief sketch
- Leases of abandoned farmsteads
- On the method of minting money
- The letter against werner
- The bread tariff
- Interplay
- And the sun stood still
- act I
- act II
- Aftermath
- The first account
- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres
- The Basel edition, 1566
- Epitome of copernican astronomy
- Dialogue on the two chief systems of the world: ptolemaic and copernican
- An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus
- Thanksgiving.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802717931
- 0802717934
- OCLC:
- 701806421
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