And the Sun Stood Still

by Dava Sobel and Kate Steele

Using her deep knowledge, her skills as a storyteller, and her imagination, Dava Sobel illuminates one of history's most significant and far-reaching meetings. In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary, elderly cleric and reluctant astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Some two decades earlier, Copernicus had floated the mind-boggling theory that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802716946
• ISBN13: 9780802716941
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"