Copernicus
Subtitle: founder of modern astronomy
By: Catherine M. Andronik.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Great minds of science
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766030138
Subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus, -- 1473-1543 -- Juvenile literature; Astronomers -- Poland -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Biography
Description: "A biography of fifteenth-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe and that all the planets, including the earth, revolved around the sun"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published: Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Awakening ideas; title: A scholarly youth; title: A radical theory; title: The multitalented canon; title: Labor of a lifetime; title: The legacy of copernicus; title: Continued revolutions.