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Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a Catholic Inquisition courier is murdered by extreme Lutherans in sixteenth-century France, Amaury de Faverges is hired to investigate a secret threat to François I, an assignment that leads to his discovery of Copernicus' manuscript about the sun's location at the center of the universe.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Sobel paints an unforgettable portrait of the Copernican Revolution. Encouraged by his German protégé, Polish cleric Nicolaus Copernicus published his heliocentric model of the universe, tantalizing 16th-century mathematicians and scientists--and triggering a groundswell of opposition.
Author
Publisher
Walker Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid narrative that connects the lives of four great astronomers and the scientific discovery that ushered in the modern era. Before the invention of the telescope, people used nothing more than their naked eye to understand what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the sixteenth century--of different nationality, age, religion, and class--collaborate to discover that the earth revolved around the sun? With this radical discovery,...
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