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In 1543, one of the greatest scientific works made its debut: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus radically altered the composition of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe. But did anyone take notice? Four and a half centuries later, 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 - from Melbourne to Moscow; Boston to Beijing - 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, movie stars, medicine men, and bibliomaniacs; some hiding in plain sight, others almost lost to time and the whims of politics and the black market.
Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and -philic quest, Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read is a captivating piece of writing, a testament to both the power of books and the power of the love of books.
Dr. Owen Jay Gingerich (1930-) is a former Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University, and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching, he has written many books on the history of astronomy.
Gingerich is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of the History of Science. He has been active in the American Scientific Affiliation, a society of evangelical scientists, and is on the Templeton Foundation's Board of Trustees.
In pursuit of Copernicus
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在善本部史睿老师推荐下,借了《无人读过的书:哥白尼〈天体运行论〉追寻记》。工作太忙,没有全部读完,但是印象很深刻。 一个天文学家,为了一本书,走遍了世界各个图书馆,看了几百本哥白尼《天体运行论》,对比异同,研究了历史背景,实在难得,需要毅力和执着的精神。想到...
评分作者用了三十年时间来调查一本书的故事,30年,是一个人三分之一的人生哪!作者整套严谨的调查方式,研究过程都全程纪录下来,哪怕一丁点细节都不放过,我觉得他的治学精神是比物理知识、善本管理知识令我获益更多的地方。 觉得很奇怪,西方的学者总能找到一些有趣的学术上面的...
评分不知道还有谁像我这样花两年时间,足字足句的读完这本书。窃以为,读书人分多种,排名第一的是有钱有闲有学识的阶层,我称其为“太平时节读书人”,每天排遣时光的主要手段便是阅读闲书;第二类是买书不读的人,这类人逢书辄喜,一喜就买,放在书架后便忘之大吉;第三类是梓梓...
评分在善本部史睿老师推荐下,借了《无人读过的书:哥白尼〈天体运行论〉追寻记》。工作太忙,没有全部读完,但是印象很深刻。 一个天文学家,为了一本书,走遍了世界各个图书馆,看了几百本哥白尼《天体运行论》,对比异同,研究了历史背景,实在难得,需要毅力和执着的精神。想到...
The Book Nobody Read pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025