Doctor Copernicus / John Banville.
By: Banville, John
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BookPublisher: London : Picador, 1999Description: 242p. ; 20cm.ISBN: 0330372343 (pbk) :; 9780330372343.Subject(s): Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543 -- Fiction | Modern & contemporary fiction | Historical fiction | General FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | General.DDC classification: 823.914 BAN Summary: The work of Nicolas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. This is a novel based on his life and work.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Fiction | MTU Kerry North Campus Library Fiction | 823.914 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38888000648414 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Volume One of the Revolutions TrilogyBanville is superb . . . there are not many historical novels of which it can be said that they illuminate both the time that forms their subject matter and the time in which they are read: Doctor Copernicus is among the very best of them' The Economist The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life. 'Banville writes novels of complex patterning, with grace, precision and timing' Guardian 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov' Daily Telegraph 'A tour de force: a fictional evocation of the great astronomer which is exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world' The Times
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1976.
The work of Nicolas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. This is a novel based on his life and work.