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Doctor Copernicus
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Author : John Banville
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2023-11-21
Doctor Copernicus written by John Banville and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Fiction categories.
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
Doctor Copernicus
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Author : John Banville
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-03-14
Doctor Copernicus written by John Banville and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-14 with Fiction categories.
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.
Copernicus Secret
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Author : Jack Repcheck
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-12-04
Copernicus Secret written by Jack Repcheck and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
When Doctors Kill
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Author : Joshua A. Perper
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-06-14
When Doctors Kill written by Joshua A. Perper and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-14 with Medical categories.
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.
The Revolutions Trilogy
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Author : John Banville
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2000
The Revolutions Trilogy written by John Banville and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
This trilogy of novels concerned with outstanding Renaissance scientists appears for the first time in one volume: DR COPERNICUS, KEPLER and THE NEWTON LETTER.
Kepler
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Author : John Banville
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-09-23
Kepler written by John Banville and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-23 with Fiction categories.
‘Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge’ Observer Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler, by John Banville, brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while 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.
The Copernicus Complex
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Author : Caleb Scharf
language : en
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-09-09
The Copernicus Complex written by Caleb Scharf and has been published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with Science categories.
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014 An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014 A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff Pick In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth rotates around the Sun. Having demoted Earth from its unique position in the cosmos to one of mediocrity, Copernicus set in motion a revolution in scientific thought. This perspective has influenced our thinking for centuries. However, recent evidence challenges the Copernican Principle, hinting that we do in fact live in a special place, at a special time, as the product of a chain of unlikely events. But can we be significant if the Sun is still just one of a billion trillion stars in the observable universe? And what if our universe is just one of a multitude of others-a single slice of an infinity of parallel realities? In The Copernicus Complex, the renowned astrophysicist Caleb Scharf takes us on a scientific adventure, from tiny microbes within the Earth to distant exoplanets, probability theory, and beyond, arguing that there is a solution to this contradiction, a third way of viewing our place in the cosmos, if we weigh the evidence properly. As Scharf explains, we do occupy an unusual time in a 14-billion-year-old universe, in a somewhat unusual type of solar system surrounded by an ocean of unimaginable planetary diversity: hot Jupiters with orbits of less than a day, planet-size rocks spinning around dead stars, and a wealth of alien super-Earths. Yet life here is built from the most common chemistry in the universe, and we are a snapshot taken from billions of years of biological evolution. Bringing us to the cutting edge of scientific discovery, Scharf shows how the answers to fundamental questions of existence will come from embracing the peculiarity of our circumstance without denying the Copernican vision. With characteristic verve, Scharf uses the latest scientific findings to reconsider where we stand in the balance between cosmic significance and mediocrity, order and chaos. Presenting a compelling and bold view of our true status, The Copernicus Complex proposes a way forward in the ultimate quest: determining life's abundance, not just across this universe but across all realities.
Copernicus
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Author : Owen Gingerich
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Copernicus written by Owen Gingerich and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Astronomers categories.
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.
The Revolutions Trilogy
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Author : John Banville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Revolutions Trilogy written by John Banville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biographical fiction, English categories.
For the first time in one volume the award winning DR COPERNICUS (James Tait Black Award 1976); KEPLER (Guardian Fiction Prize 1981) & THE NEWTON LETTER (1982).
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Author : Owen Gingerich
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2005-06-16
Nicolaus Copernicus written by Owen Gingerich and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Presents the life and accomplishments of the man considered the "father of the Scientific Revolution" due to his theory that the sun is the center of the solar system and the planets revolve around it.