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By John Freely

ISBN-10: 1780763506

ISBN-13: 9781780763507

within the spring of 1500, on the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that "All the area is in Rome." notwithstanding not anyone knew it on the time, this incorporated a tender student by means of the identify of Nicolaus Copernicus who may someday switch the world.

One of the best polymaths of his or any age - linguist, legal professional, health care provider, diplomat, flesh presser, mathematician, scientist, astronomer, artist, cleric - Copernicus gave the area arguably an important clinical discovery of the trendy period: that earth and the planets revolve round the sunlight and that the earth rotates on its axis as soon as each 24 hours. His heliocentric idea and the discoveries that will stick to ushered within the age of recent astronomy, known as the Copernican Age, and alter the way in which we glance on the universe endlessly. This impressive and debatable trust - born of a fusion of the theories of the nice students of antiquity and the information of the medieval Islamic international - used to be immortalised in Copernicus' epic "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium", a publication whose first actual revealed replica used to be positioned into his arms in the mean time of his demise in 1543.

Here, for the 1st time, is a biography of Copernicus that not just describes his theories however the lifetime of the fellow himself and the epic, exciting instances during which he lived.

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