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      Doctor Copernicus

      by John Banville
      Published
      Jan 1976
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      241
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      The Revolutions Trilogy

      About This Book

      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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      Jun 1984 David R Godine Pub ISBN13 9780879235130 ISBN10 0879235136
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      Oct 1993 Vintage ISBN13 9780679737995 ISBN10 0679737995
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      Aug 1997 Random House (UK) ISBN13 9780749390761 ISBN10 074939076X
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      Jun 1999 Picador (UK) ISBN13 9780330372343 ISBN10 0330372343
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      Jul 2001 Picador (UK) ISBN13 9780330373470 ISBN10 0330373471
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      Feb 2024 Hanover Square Press ISBN13 9781335145895 ISBN10 1335145893
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      First Edition Jan 1976 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393087574 ISBN10 0393087573
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      Mar 2012 Vintage ISBN10 B007DM5XX2
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      Mar 2012 Knopf ISBN13 9780307817136 ISBN10 030781713X
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      Nov 2023 Hanover Square Press ISBN13 9780369749741 ISBN10 036974974X
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