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Doctor Copernicus

Doctor Copernicus

Banville, John

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ISBN10: 1335145893
ISBN13: 9781335145895
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: Feb 13 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 6.40
Language: English
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

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