Doctor Copernicus

✍ Scribed by John Banville

• Book ID: 112085844
• Publisher: Hanover Square Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 203 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780369749741

✦ Synopsis

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.
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