Alma Cuervo
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to place the sun--not the earth--at the center of the universe and did so in an outline in 1514. Over the following two decades he expanded on that theory, compiling in secret a book-length manuscript which he did not publish until 1543. Sobel chronicles the personalities and the discoveries that shaped the Copernican Revolution.