TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sobel,Dava
TI  - A more perfect heaven: how Copernicus revolutionized the cosmos 
SN  - 9780802717931 :
AV  - QB501 .S75 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Walker
KW  - Copernicus, Nicolaus,
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Solar system
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-261) and index; Pt. 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 copeernican astronomy -- Dialogue concerning the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican -- An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus -- Thanksgiving
N2  - 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
ER  -