Exclusieve Aanbieding The First Copernican Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution – Dennis Richard Danielson

In May, 1539, a young, German mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus traveled hundreds of miles across Europe in the hopes of meeting and spending a few days with the legendary astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus, in Frombork, Poland. Two and a half years later, Rheticus was still there, fascinated by what he was discovering, but largely engaged in trying to convince Copernicus to publish his masterwork� De revolutionibus ( On the Revolutions of the Heavens ), the first book to posit that the sun was the c…