Doctor Copernicus
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    1976
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    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    241
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The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prizeā€"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 ā€œthe secret music of the universeā€ poses a most devastating threat.

"A tour de forceā€¦ Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world."  -- The Times
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    • Jun-1984
    • David R Godine Pub
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0879235136
    • ISBN13: 9780879235130
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    • Oct-1993
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679737995
    • ISBN13: 9780679737995
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    • Aug-1997
    • Random House (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 074939076X
    • ISBN13: 9780749390761
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    • Jun-1999
    • Picador (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330372343
    • ISBN13: 9780330372343
    •  
    • Feb-2024
    • Hanover Square Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1335145893
    • ISBN13: 9781335145895
    • First Edition
    • 1976
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393087573
    • ISBN13: 9780393087574
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    • Mar-2012
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 030781713X
    • ISBN13: 9780307817136
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    • Mar-2012
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1447211774
    • ISBN13: 9781447211778
    •  
    • Mar-2012
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743280351
    • ISBN13: 9781743280355
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    • Nov-2023
    • Hanover Square Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 036974974X
    • ISBN13: 9780369749741



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