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A more perfect heaven : how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos  Cover Image Book Book

A more perfect heaven : how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos / Dava Sobel.

Sobel, Dava. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802717931
  • ISBN: 0802717934
  • Physical Description: xiv, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Walker Pub., 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 > Influence.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543. De revolutionibus orbium caelestium.
Solar system.
Astronomy.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Hanover Libraries.

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