The First Copernican Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution  -  Dennis Richard Danielson

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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 c...
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Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing 264 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0802715303 ISBN-13: 9780802715302