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J.L. Heilbron: A Copernican monomaniac, 22 September 2005
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
by Owen Gingerich.
Arrow, 320 pp., £7.99, July 2005,0 09 947644 4 Show More
by Owen Gingerich.
Arrow, 320 pp., £7.99, July 2005,
“... Owen Gingerich’s The Book Nobody Read is an engaging account of a harmless obsession. For thirty years he has been ferreting out every copy of Nicholas Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium to which library catalogues, booksellers’ lists, auction records, informed tips and plain luck led him ... ”