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Ivan
Crowe.
Copernicus.
Stroud: Tempus
Publishing, 2003.
190pp.
Paperback
ISBN 0752425536.
Publisher's
recommended price £16.99/$24.99
In
his
lifetime Nicholas
Copernicus was a canon of the Catholic Church and a physician by day,
by
night he was a watcher of the stars. For history he will remain the man
who changed the face of the universe forever.
Nicholas
Copernicus
is one of the most famous astronomers of all time, his courage and hard
work led him to challenge the beliefs of the day and assert the truth:
that the earth revolved around the sun. Ivan Crowe takes us on a
journey
of discovery showing how Copernicus came to his earth-shattering
conclusion
via mathematical experiments, how he struggled with his results and how
he sent his peers and Renaissance society as a whole reeling into
crisis.
Copernicus
was
a Renaissance man, physician and diplomat - dedicated to study and
pushing
forward the frontiers of knowledge. Crowe places him firmly in his
world
where scientific conclusions could lead dangerously close to heresy and
fear of excommunication. Indeed, his explorations did not sit easily
with
his own conscience, for most of his life he was wracked by self-doubt
and
inner turmoil. |
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