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

5.0

As with every other Dava Sobel book I've read, super educational, interesting, and enjoyable! Would definitely recommend. Learned a ton about Copernicus, and realized that I'd only really known about his work previously. There's a play that she wrote as an interlude in the middle, which caught me off guard at first, but then I really enjoyed it! I think she used it as a way to have a fictionalized interlude that gave life to a bunch of disconnected detail / known facts, which she then clarified and talked about afterwards. Unexpected, but totally worked for this purpose.