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The Book Nobody Read (Paperback)
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The Book Nobody Read (Paperback)
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List price R487
Loot Price R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
You Save R48 (10%)
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1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific
works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the
Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a
radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the sun, and
not the earth, at the centre of the universe. But did anyone take
notice? Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich was intrigued by the
bold claim made by Arthur Koestler in his bestselling The
Sleepwalkers that sixteenth-century Europe paid little attention to
the groundbreaking, but dense, masterpiece. Gingerich embarked on a
thirty-year odyssey to examine every extant copy to prove Koestler
wrong... Logging thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of
miles Gingerich uncovered a treasure trove of material on the life
of a book and the evolution of an idea. His quest led him to copies
once owned by saints, heretics, and scallywags, by musicians and
movie stars; some easily accessible, others almost lost to time,
politics and the black market. Part biography of a book and a man,
part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, Gingerich's The Book
Nobody Read is an utterly captivating piece of writing, a testament
to the power both of books and the love of books.
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