Le secret de Copernic [French]

By Jean-Pierre Luminet and Luminet

Book Overview

The life of Nicolas Copernicus is comparable to a great novel and Jean-Pierre Luminet has written it. This is the first volume of a series on the novelised lives of the great thinkers who have revolutionized our vision of the cosmos: Copernicus, Kepler, Newton.

Born in Poland at the end of the 15th century at a time of the last Teutonic Knight wars, he was very soon an orphan. His uncle, the Bishop of Emerland, in Prussia will be instrumental in opening wide the doors to a higher education, university and the Church.

In the midst of the mammoth religious and political upheaval of the time, the birth of the Reform in particular, Copernicus will revolutionize the long established representation of the Cosmos, dating back to Ptolemy and Aristotle. The universe no longer revolves around the Earth. The Sun becomes the center of our world.

From the tiny streets of Krakow to the celebrated universities of Bologna and Florence, from the astronomical observatories of Nuremberg to the corridors of the Vatican, this inspirational novel colourfully blends history and science and transports us to a period of great change, clarifying the fantastic theological and scientific debates of the time.

Astrophysicist, poet and novelist, Jean-Pierre Luminet is the author of Rendez-vous de V nus (JC Latt s, 1999) and B ton d'Euclide ( JC Latt s, 2002), two widely popular titles with Latt s and translated in Germany, Spain, Holland, Greece, Korea and Czech Republic. The two following volumes of The Sky builders will be published in October 2006 and February 2007.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2709625962
• ISBN13: 9782709625968
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.9"