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100 1 $aSobel, Dava.
245 12 $aA more perfect heaven :$bhow Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos /$cDava Sobel.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 273 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c22 cm
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505 0 $apt. 1. Prelude. Moral, rustic, and amorous epistles -- The brief sketch -- Leases of abandoned farmsteads -- On the method of minting money -- The letter against Werner -- The bread tariff -- pt. 2. Interplay. "And the sun stood still" : act I -- "And the sun stood still" : act II -- pt. 3. Aftermath. The first account -- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres -- The Basel edition -- Epitome of Copernican astronomy -- Dialogue concerning the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican -- An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus -- Thanksgiving -- Copernican chronology.
520 $aTraces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
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