The Book Nobody Read
Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
By Owen, Gingerich, Owen Gingerich
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Part biography of Nicolaus Copernicus, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic quest, Gingerich's book will offer new appreciation of the history of science and cosmology. [예스24 제공]
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bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010
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Owen Gingerich’s The Book Nobody Read is an engaging account of a harmless obsession. For thirty years he has been ferreting out every copy of Nicholas Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium to which library catalogues, booksellers’ lists, ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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An interesting journal of the authors developing expertise in analyzing and appraising old scientific texts - particularly those from the era of Copernicus and other early astronomers. Drags at the end as the author recounts the discovery of yet more, largely similar, copies of the same texts.
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- English Books
- Hardcover 256 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0802714153
- ISBN-13: 9780802714152
- Publisher: Walker & Company
- Pub date: Mar 01, 2004
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback
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| 9780802714152 | Hardcover | $25.00 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The Book Nobody Read By Owen Gingerich
The 16th century was an age of revolutions. The world of faith, revolving around Rome, shifted on its axis when 95 theses were nailed to a door in Wittenberg. The world of commerce, revolving around hazardous land journeys to the east, sailed west to ... (read full critics)