by Site Owner | Mar 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
by Dava Sobel Walker & Company, $25.00, 273 pages Popular history-of-science writer Dava Sobel tells the story of how, in the middle of the 16th century, a young mathematician named Rheticus traveled to Poland and convinced an aging Nicolaus Copernicus to publish...