Name: The Book Nobody Read
ISBN: 9780802714152

Owen Gingerich

Examines how the technical 16th-century treatise launched a revolution more profound than the Reformation, and how copies have evolved into million-dollar cultural icons.

Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

The Book Nobody Read

Examines how De revolutionibus, the technical sixteenth-century treatise by Nicolaus Copernicus, helped launch a revolution more profound than the Reformation and how the six hundred surviving copies have evolved into million-dollar cultural icons. Reprint.

Jonathan Grunert

Part detective story, part travel-book, part chronicle of an obsession, The Book Nobody Read tells the story of Owen Gingerich's quest to visit every surviving copy of one of the world's great books.

The Book Nobody Read Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

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