A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel

A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

Dava Sobel

273 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set...

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