A More Perfect Heaven (39 page)
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Authors: Dava Sobel
Longitude
The Illustrated Longitude
(with William J. H. Andrewes)
Galileo’s Daughter
The Planets
Letters to Father
(translated and annotated)
Copyright © 2011 by Dava Sobel
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First published in the U.S. by Walker Publishing Company in 2011
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Dedication
“To The Reader, Concerning … This Work”
Part One • Prelude
Chapter 1 Moral, Rustic, and Amorous Epistles
Chapter 2 The Brief Sketch
Chapter 3 Leases of Abandoned Farmsteads
Chapter 4 On the Method of Minting Money
Chapter 5 The Letter Against Werner
Chapter 6 The Bread Tariff
Part Two • Interplay
“And the Sun Stood Still”. Act I
“And the Sun Stood Still”. Act II
Part Three • Aftermath
Chapter 7 The First Account
Chapter 8 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Chapter 9 The Basel Edition
Chapter 10 Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Chapter 11 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Ptolemaic and Copernican
Chapter 12 An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus
Thanksgiving
Copernican Chronology
Notes on the Quotations
Illustration Credits
Maps
Bibliography
Footnotes
A Note on the Author
Also by Dava Sobel
Imprint
Table of Contents
“To The Reader, Concerning … This Work”
Chapter 1 Moral, Rustic, and Amorous Epistles
Chapter 2 The Brief Sketch
Chapter 3 Leases of Abandoned Farmsteads
Chapter 4 On the Method of Minting Money
Chapter 5 The Letter Against Werner
Chapter 6 The Bread Tariff
“And the Sun Stood Still”. Act I
“And the Sun Stood Still”. Act II
Chapter 7 The First Account
Chapter 8 On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Chapter 9 The Basel Edition
Chapter 10 Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Chapter 11 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Ptolemaic and Copernican
Chapter 12 An Annotated Census of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus