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Angus Armitage
Our Price$14.95New!(Table of Contents)
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ISBN: 0486439070
Page Count: 240
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Masterly and authoritative, this book by the foremost scholar on the 16th-century astronomer provides lucid accounts of the development and progress of the Copernican theory as well as a fascinating portrait of the man who clarified the basis for modern cosmology. 41 figures. 6 halftones.
Unabridged republication of Copernicus: The Founder of Modern Astronomy, originally published by Thomas Yoseloff, New York, 1957.

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