The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Hobart, Michael E. | Copyright information

The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus. By Owen Gingerich. (New York: Walker and Company, 2004. Pp. xii, 306. $25.00.)

Early in his book, the author offers a "champagne dinner" to anybody who can identify the author of the annotations in the copy of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus once owned by Adam Smith--annotations defending Copernicus (87). The offer reveals both the level of detail in Owen Gingerich's narration and the tenor of the tale. ...

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