The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution - Hardcover

Danielson, Dennis

 
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A portrait of young mathematics prodigy Georg Joachim Rheticus describes how his work with his mentor, the aging astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, promoted the publication of the scientist's seminal work, De revolutionibus, a work that had a profound influence on scientific understanding of the physical universe.

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Dennis Danielson is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. He has served as a member of the History-of-Astonomy Committee for the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, and is a member of the Historical Astronomy division of the American Astronomical Society. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Physics and the Journal for the History of Astronomy. He is the editor of the acclaimed anthology of cosmological writings, The Book of the Cosmos. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

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ISBN 10:  143796737X ISBN 13:  9781437967371
Verlag: Walker & Co., 2006
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