The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution by Dennis Danielson

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

Dennis Danielson

288 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative medium-paced

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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 hal...

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