A More Perfect Heaven by Dava Sobel
A concise narrative of the life, work and intellectual milieu of Nicolaus Copernicus, tracing how his patient observations and mathematical reconstructions of planetary motion produced a simple but revolutionary heliocentric model that upended the medieval, Earth-centered cosmos; the book follows the slow, fraught path from private calculation to the risky publication of his ideas, and examines the scientific, religious and cultural resistance and eventual transformation that reshaped astronomy and Western thought.
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