Book
The Book Nobody Read
- Published
- 2004
- Genre
- Science/Math
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Pages
- 265
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188644.The_Book_Nobody_Read?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich has written an utterly original book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of "De revolutionibus." He found the books owned and annotated by Galileo, Kepler and many other lesser-known astronomers whom he brings back to life, which illuminate the long, reluctant process of accepting the Sun-centered cosmos and highlight the historic tensions between science and the Catholic Church. He traced the ownership of individual copies through the hands of saints, heretics, scalawags, and bibliomaniacs. He was called as the expert witness in the theft of one copy, witnessed the dramatic auction of another, and proves conclusively that "De revolutionibus" was as inspirational as it was revolutionary.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780099476443
- ISBN-10
- 0099476444
Tags
CopernicusHistoryResearchScienceScience-AstronomyScience-Mathematics