Publisher Description
With the enthralling style that made Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter international best-sellers, Dava Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protege, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists-and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
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“Very readable, easy to get through even with all the details about the cosmos and revolutions of the planets and all that. Made me really like Copernicus. Got a little tired of the writing a few times, the author tried to get a little too poetic, and there’s a whole section in the middle where she writes a little play about Copernicus and his apprentice, kind of skipped that part.”
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Kristy (4 out of 5 stars)
