Celestial Revolutionary

Copernicus, the Man and His Universe

John Freely

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English

I B TAURIS
01 June 2014

Biography: historical, political & military; Biography: science, technology & engineering; Mathematics & Sciences; Astronomy, space & time

In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that All the world is in Rome. Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world. One of the greatest polymaths of his or any age - linguist, lawyer, doctor, diplomat, politician, mathematician, scientist, astronomer, artist, cleric - Copernicus gave the world arguably the most important scientific discovery of the modern era: that earth and the planets revolve around the sun and that the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. His heliocentric theory and the discoveries that would follow ushered in the age of modern astronomy, often called the Copernican Age, and change the way we look at the universe forever. This brilliant and controversial belief - born of a fusion of the theories of the great scholars of antiquity and the knowledge of the medieval Islamic world - was immortalised in Copernicus' epic De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , a book whose very first printed copy was placed into his hands at the moment of his death in 1543.

Here, for the first time, is a biography of Copernicus that not only describes his theories but the life of the man himself and the epic, thrilling times in which he lived.

By: John Freely
Imprint: I B TAURIS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781780763507
ISBN 10: 1780763506
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 June 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Introduction 1. 'This Remote Corner of the Earth' 2. A New Age 3. The Jagiellonian University of Krakow 4. Renaissance Italy 5. The Bishopric of Warmia 6. The Little Commentary 7. The Letter Against Werner 8. The Frauenburg Wenches 9. The First Disciple 10. The First Account 11. Preparing the Revolutions 12. The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres 13. The Copernican Revolution 14. Debating the Copernican and Ptolemaic Models 15. The Newtonian Synthesis Epilogue Searching for Copernicus Source Notes Bibliography Index

John Freely was born in New York and joined the US Navy at the age of seventeen, serving with a commando unit in Burma and China during the last years of World War II. He has lived in New York, Boston, London, Athens and Istanbul and has written over forty travel books and guides, most of them about Greece and Turkey. He is author of The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles, The Cydades, The Ionian Islands (all I.B.Tauris), Crete, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice (all Tauris Parke Paperbacks) and the bestselling Strolling Through Istanbul.