Celestial Revolutionary Copernicus The Man And His Universe
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd; I.B. Tauris
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781780763507
Description: 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 rotates on its axis every 24 hours...Here, for the first time is a biography of Copernicus that not only describes his theories, but the life of the man himself and the epic, thrilling times in which he lived.