Celestial revolutionary: Copernicus, the man and his universe
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Main Author: Freely, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London I.B. Tauris 2014
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In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that ""All the world is in Rome."" Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world. One of the greatest polymaths of his or any age - linguist, lawyer, doctor, diplomat, politician, mathematician, scientist, astronomer, artist, cleric - Copernicus gave the world arguably the most important scientific discovery of the modern era: that earth and the planets revolve around the sun and that the earth r
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ISBN:0857734903
9780857734907
9781780763507

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