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" A more perfect heaven : "
Dava Sobel
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BL
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702294
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b524483
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| Main Entry
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Sobel, Dava
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| Title & Author
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A more perfect heaven : : how Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos /\ Dava Sobel
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| Edition Statement
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1st U.S. ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Walker Pub.,, 2011
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xiv, 273 p. :: ill., maps, ports. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0802717934
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: 9780802717931
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261) and index
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| Contents
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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 -- Interplay -- And the sun stood still -- act I -- And the sun stood still -- act II -- Aftermath -- The first account -- On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres -- The Basel edition, 1566 -- Epitome of copernican astronomy -- Dialogue on the two chief systems of the world: ptolemaic and copernican -- An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus -- Thanksgiving
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| Abstract
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Traces 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
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Copernicus, Nicolaus,1473-1543-- Influence
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Copernicus, Nicolaus,1473-1543., De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
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Astronomy
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Solar system
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| Dewey Classification
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520.9/2
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QB501.S75 2011
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