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Doctor Copernicus
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 0679737995
ISBN13: 9780679737995
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 12 1993
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679737995
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 12 1993
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.
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