A more perfect heaven
Subtitle: how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos
By: Dava Sobel
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Walker Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780802717931
Subjects: Astronomy; Influence
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Moral, rustic, and amorous epistles; title: The brief sketch; title: Leases of abandoned farmsteads; title: On the method of minting money; title: The letter against werner; title: The bread tariff; title: Interplay; title: And the sun stood still; title: act I; title: And the sun stood still; title: act II; title: Aftermath; title: The first account; title: On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres; title: The Basel edition, 1566; title: Epitome of copernican astronomy; title: Dialogue on the two chief systems of the world: ptolemaic and copernican; title: An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus; title: Thanksgiving.