The Book Nobody Read
by Owen Gingerich · first published 2004
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…all—of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres." That is a fascinating book; part history of science, part detective story and part bibliophile's wet dream: http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Nobody-Read-Revolutions/dp/B0...
on “A Very Rare Book: The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise” ↗…literature, as mathematical notation and terms are things that have evolved significantly in the last centuries. There are two "new" references about "old" physics literature I particularly enjoyed: - "The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus," by O. Gingerich, about Copernicus' book "De revolutionibus." - "A Student’s Guide Through the Great Physics Texts," by K. Kuehn (4 volumes). It presents…
on “C.S. Lewis on the Reading of Old Books” ↗…reality than Copernicus' circles-only Heliocentric model. I'm not sure I can find the exact book. There's, like, so many books about Copernicus on Amazon. This is my best guess: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Nobody-Read-Revolutions-Copernic...
on “Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism” ↗