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On the revolutions of heavenly spheres

Author: Nicolaus Copernicus; S W Hawking
Publisher: Philadelphia : Running Press, ©2002.
Series: On the shoulders of giants (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Professor Hawking presents Copernicus's revolutionary masterpiece. An introductory essay makes the classic more accessible.
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Genre/Form: Early works to 1800
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nicolaus Copernicus; S W Hawking
ISBN: 0762420219 9780762420216
OCLC Number: 58527782
Notes: Translation of De revolutionibus orbium caelestium.
Description: xvi, 384 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Title: On the shoulders of giants (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Other Titles: De revolutionibus orbium caelestium.
Responsibility: by Nicolaus Copernicus ; edited with commentary, by Stephen Hawking.

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This groundbreaking work of astronomy proposed a heliocentric universe in which planets orbited the sun - daring to challenge the Ptolemaic ideal of the earth as the centre of the universe. Features  Read more...

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