Celestial Revolutionary : Copernicus, the Man and His Universe

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freely, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomers--Poland--Biography.

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543--Exhibitions.

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.

Local Subjects:

Astronomers--Poland--Biography.

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543--Exhibitions.

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Other Title:

Celestial Revolutionary

Place of Publication:

London : I.B.Tauris, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that ""All the world is in Rome."" Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world.One of the greatest polymaths of his or any age - linguist, lawyer, doctor, diplomat, politician, mathematician, scientist, astronomer, artist, cleric - Copernicus gave the world arguably the most important scientific discovery of the modern era: that earth and the planets revolve around the sun and that the earth r

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 'This Remote Corner of the Earth'; 2 A New Age; 3 The Jagiellonian University of Krakow; 4 Renaissance Italy; 5 The Bishopric of Warmia; 6 The Little Commentary; 7 The Letter Against Werner; 8 The Frauenburg Wenches; 9 The First Disciple; 10 The First Account; 11 Preparing the Revolutions; 12 The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres; 13 The Copernican Revolution; 14 Debating the Copernican and Ptolemaic Models; 15 The Newtonian Synthesis; Epilogue Searching for Copernicus; Source Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857734907

0857734903

OCLC:

881607727