A more perfect heaven : how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos
(2011)
By:
Sobel, Dava
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
520.9/SOBEL,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Walker Pub., 2011
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780802717931, 0802717934
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 -- And the sun stood still -- 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