Doctor Copernicus

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307817136

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Doctor Copernicus by John Banville Pdf

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a novel set in sixteenth-century Europe about an obscure cleric who is preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe—while being haunted by his malevolent brother and threatened by the conspiracies raging around him and his ideas. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447211778

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Doctor Copernicus by John Banville Pdf

‘Banville is superb . . . there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them’ The Economist The first in John Banville Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Doctor Copernicus is a rich historical novel that explores the life of one of history's greatest scientists. The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369749741

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Doctor Copernicus by John Banville Pdf

The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize–winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe. Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat. "A tour de force… Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world." —The Times

Author : Jack Repcheck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743289511

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Copernicus' Secret by Jack Repcheck Pdf

Nicolaus Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. He was also the first to proclaim that the earth rotates on its axis once every twenty-four hours. His theory was truly radical: during his lifetime nearly everyone believed that a perfectly still earth rested in the middle of the cosmos, where all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. One of the transcendent geniuses of the early Renaissance, Copernicus was also a flawed and conflicted person. A cleric who lived during the tumultuous years of the early Reformation, he may have been sympathetic to the teachings of the Lutherans. Although he had taken a vow of celibacy, he kept at least one mistress. Supremely confident intellectually, he hesitated to disseminate his work among other scholars. It fact, he kept his astronomical work a secret, revealing it to only a few intimates, and the manuscript containing his revolutionary theory, which he refined for at least twenty years, remained "hidden among my things." It is unlikely that Copernicus' masterwork would ever have been published if not for a young mathematics professor named Georg Joachim Rheticus. He had heard of Copernicus' ideas, and with his imagination on fire he journeyed hundreds of miles to a land where, as a Lutheran, he was forbidden to travel. Rheticus' meeting with Copernicus in a small cathedral town in northern Poland proved to be one of the most important encounters in history. Copernicus' Secretrecreates the life and world of the scientific genius whose work revolutionized astronomy and altered our understanding of our place in the world. It tells the surprising, little-known story behind the dawn of the scientific age.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0330373471

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The Revolutions Trilogy by John Banville Pdf

This trilogy of novels concerned with outstanding Renaissance scientists appears for the first time in one volume: DR COPERNICUS, KEPLER and THE NEWTON LETTER.

Author : John Banville
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369749758

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Kepler by John Banville Pdf

The Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler by John Banville brilliantly re-creates his life and his work, which laid the foundation of the universe even while he was being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time, it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world, rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors. "What Banville writes is historically accurate, but his [are] a novelist's truth, and…a lover's prose." —Newsweek

Author : Friedel Weinert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444304947

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Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud by Friedel Weinert Pdf

Using Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism as examples of scientific traditions, Copernicus, Darwin and Freud takes a philosophical look at these three revolutions in thought to illustrate the connections between science and philosophy. Shows how these revolutions in thought lead to philosophical consequences Provides extended case studies of Copernicanism, Darwinism, and Freudianism Integrates the history of science and the philosophy of science like no other text Covers both the philosophy of natural and social science in one volume

Author : Joshua A. Perper,Stephen J. Cina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781441913692

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When Doctors Kill by Joshua A. Perper,Stephen J. Cina Pdf

It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors. Killing is clearly an- thetical to the Art and Science of Medicine, which is geared toward easing pain and suffering and to saving lives rather than smothering them. Doctors should be a source of comfort rather than a cause for alarm. Nevertheless, although they often don’t want to admit it, doctors are people too. Physicians have the same genetic library of both endearing qualities and character defects as the rest of us but their vocation places them in a position to intimately interject themselves into the lives of other people. In most cases, fortunately, the positive traits are dominant and doctors do more good than harm. While physicists and mathematicians paved the road to the stars and deciphered the mysteries of the atom, they simultaneously unleashed destructive powers that may one day bring about the annihilation of our planet. Concurrently, doctors and allied scientists have delved into the deep secrets of the body and mind, mastering the anatomy and physiology of the human body, even mapping the very molecules that make us who we are. But make no mistake, a person is not simply an elegant b- logical machine to be marveled at then dissected.

Author : Owen Gingerich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Astronomers
ISBN : 9780199330966

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Copernicus by Owen Gingerich Pdf

Leading historian of science Owen Gingerich offers a fascinating portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who developed the concept of a heliocentric universe and is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science.

Author : Caleb Scharf
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781846147135

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The Copernicus Complex by Caleb Scharf Pdf

Though the concept of "the universe" suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others-a single slice of an infinity of parallel realities. In The Copernicus Complex, the renowned astrophysicist and author Caleb Scharf takes us on a cosmic adventure like no other, from tiny microbes within the Earth to distant exoplanets and beyond, asserting that the age-old Copernican principle is in need of updating. As Scharf argues, when Copernicus proposed that the Earth was not the fixed point at the center of the known universe (and therefore we are not unique), he set in motion a colossal scientific juggernaut, forever changing our vision of nature. But the principle has never been entirely true-we do live at a particular time, in a particular location, under particular circumstances. To solve this conundrum we must put aside our Copernican worldview and embrace the possibility that we are in a delicate balance between mediocrity and significance, order and chaos. Weaving together cutting-edge science and classic storytelling, historical accounts and speculations on what the future holds, The Copernicus Complex presents a compelling argument for what our true cosmic status is, and proposes a way forward for the ultimate quest: to determine life's abundance not just across this universe but across all realities.

Author : Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756510589

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Nicolaus Copernicus by Barbara A. Somervill Pdf

Profiles the life and work of the Polish astronomer who believed that the planets revolved around the Sun and the Earth was not the center of the universe.

Author : Pierre Gassendi,Olivier Thill
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781591601937

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The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543) by Pierre Gassendi,Olivier Thill Pdf

Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781408822388

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A More Perfect Heaven by Dava Sobel Pdf

The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393329186

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Uncentering the Earth by William T. Vollmann Pdf

An analysis of the astronomer's pivotal sixteenth-century work traces how his challenge to beliefs about an Earth-centric solar system had a profound influence on the ways in which humanity understands itself and the universe.

Author : Ellie Peterson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635921366

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The Reason for the Seasons by Ellie Peterson Pdf

We all know there are four seasons in a year. But HOW do we know? Join intrepid young scientist-adventurer Joulia Copernicus on a journey around the world as she explains with humor and wit how we know what causes the seasons. Winter, spring, summer, fall -- we all have a favorite season. But what makes the seasons happen in the first place? Ellie Peterson's clear, concise language and bold, kid-friendly illustrations bring science to life through narrator Joulia Copernicus, a strong and adventurous kid scientist. Kids will laugh while learning at the same time about the science behind the changing of the seasons throughout the year.