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03338aam a2200469 i 4500 001 B2410AA4026711E89DEE1C1997128E48 003 SILO 005 20180126010225 008 150717s2016 nyuab 000 d eng 010 $a 2015027705 020 $a 0802716946 020 $a 9780802716941 035 $a (OCoLC)914157002 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d BKL $d CDX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-pl--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e-pl 050 00 $a PS3619.O3738 $b A85 2016 082 00 $a 812/.6 $2 23 084 $a DRA004000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Sobel, Dava, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84010041 245 10 $a And the sun stood still / $c Dava Sobel. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury USA, $c 2016. 300 $a xi, 90 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "A play in two acts." 520 $a "Using her deep knowledge, her skills as a storyteller, and her imagination, Dava Sobel illuminates one of history's most significant and far-reaching meetings. In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary, elderly cleric and reluctant astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Some two decades earlier, Copernicus had floated the mind-boggling theory that the Sun, not the Earth, was stationary at the center of the universe, and he was rumored to have crafted a book that could prove it. Though exactly what happened between them can never be known, Rheticus shepherded Copernicus's great work into production and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ultimately changed the course of human understanding. Dava Sobel imagines their dramatic encounter, and with wit and erudition gives them personality. Through clever and dramatic dialogue, she brings alive the months Rheticus and Copernicus spent together--the one a heretical Lutheran, the other a free-thinking Catholic--and in the process illuminates the historic tension between science and religion. An introduction by Dava Sobel will set the stage, putting the scenes in historical context, and an afterword will describe what happened after Copernicus's book was published detailing the impact it had on science and on civilization"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Copernicus, Nicolaus, $d 1473-1543 $v Drama. 600 17 $a Copernicus, Nicolaus, $d 1473-1543. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00033633 650 0 $a Astronomers $z Poland $v Drama. 650 7 $a DRAMA $x Continental European. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Astronomers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00819629 651 7 $a Poland. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206891 655 7 $a Drama. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423879 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423879 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Biographical drama. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026245 655 7 $a Historical drama. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026369 655 7 $a Drama. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026297 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213013344.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006093750.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B2410AA4026711E89DEE1C1997128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search