Nolanus Nullanus
Charles Nicholl, 12 March 1992
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
by John Bossy.
Yale, 294 pp., £16.95, September 1991,0 300 04993 5 Show More
by John Bossy.
Yale, 294 pp., £16.95, September 1991,
The Elizabethan Secret Service
by Alison Plowden.
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 158 pp., £30, September 1991,0 7108 1152 7 Show More
by Alison Plowden.
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 158 pp., £30, September 1991,
The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe
by Victor Thoren.
Cambridge, 523 pp., £40, May 1991,0 521 35158 8 Show More
by Victor Thoren.
Cambridge, 523 pp., £40, May 1991,
“... of Copernicanism that it could entertain without violence to common sense or theological fiat’. Victor Thoren’s biography is exhaustive and highly technical. He gives a fascinating account of the building and equipping of Uraniborg, Brahe’s observatory-laboratory on Hven. Brahe himself, a fearsome figure with drooping moustaches and a face scarred ... ”
