The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution
de Danielson, Dennis Richard
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- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0802715303
- ISBN 13
- 9780802715302
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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New York: Walker & Company, 2006. 264 pages, illustrations, map; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In May, 1539, a young, German mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus traveled hundreds of miles across Europe in the hopes of meeting and spending a few days with the legendary astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, in Frombork, Poland. Two and a half years later, Rheticus was still there, fascinated by what he was discovering, but largely engaged in trying to convince Copernicus to publish his masterwork--De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavens), the first book to posit that the sun was the center of the universe. That he was finally able to do so just as Copernicus was dying became a turning point for science and civilization. That he then went on to a legendary career of his own--he founded the field of trigonometry, for example--will be one of the many surprises in this eye-opening book, which will restore Rheticus to his rightful place in the history of science. / Dennis Danielson is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He has served as a member of the History-of-Astonomy Committee for the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, and is a member of the Historical Astronomy division of the American Astronomical Society. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Physics and the Journal for the History of Astronomy. He is the editor of the acclaimed anthology of cosmological writings, The Book of the Cosmos. He lives in Vancouver, BC." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution
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- Danielson, Dennis Richard
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
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- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0802715303
- ISBN 13
- 9780802715302
- Editorial
- Walker & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Tamaño
- 8vo
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- COLLECTIBLE
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