副标题: In Pursuit of the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
出版年: 2005-7
页数: 320
定价: 95.00元
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780099476443
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1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: "De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)", in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe.But did anyone take notice? - Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich was i...
1543 saw the publication of one of the most significant scientific works ever written: "De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)", in which Nicolaus Copernicus presented a radically different structure of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe.But did anyone take notice? - Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich was intrigued by the bold claim made by Arthur Koestler in his bestselling "The Sleepwalkers" that sixteenth-century Europe paid little attention to the groundbreaking, but dense, masterpiece. Gingerich embarked on a thirty-year odyssey to examine every extant copy to prove Koestler wrong...Logging thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of miles Gingerich uncovered a treasure trove of material on the life of a book and the evolution of an idea. His quest led him to copies once owned by saints, heretics, and scallywags, by musicians and movie stars; some easily accessible, others almost lost to time, politics and the black market.Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and bibliophilic quest, Gingerich's "The Book Nobody Read" is an utterly captivating piece of writing, a testament to the power both of books and the love of books.
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欧文·金格里奇(1930~)是哈佛一史密森天文台荣退资深天文学家,哈佛大学天文学及科学史双料教授。他曾任哈佛科学史系系主任、美国哲学协会副主席和国际天文学联合会美国委员会主席。他的研究兴趣包括恒星光谱的分析、哥白尼著作的研究和16世纪宇宙学家的研究。除了近六百篇专业论文和学术评论外,他的主要著作有《哥白尼大追寻与其他天文学史探索》(The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History)、《天眼:托勒密、哥白尼与开普勒》(The Eye of Heaven:Ptolemy,Copernicus,Kepler)和《上帝的宇宙》(God's Universe)。金格里奇及其妻子米里亚姆生活在马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇,他们不仅是旅游爱好者,而且是古书及贝类收藏家。
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被冤枉的托勒密——天文学史中流行的一个谬误
略窥英美法系国家普通公民对刑事诉讼的态度
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最初读这本书是翻着看的,不料作者为了吸引眼球,将他平生第一次出庭作证的经历作为首章来描写,对英美法系国家的刑事诉讼过程我向来是充满兴趣的,这是我第一次见到以第一人称证人视角描写刑诉过程。 该证人是纽约大学史学叫兽。也即专家证人。该专家证人熟悉刑事诉讼对证人... (展开)今年是国际天文年,应该增加些天文知识
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