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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

Category: Arts
Duration: 00:04:55
Publish Date: 2010-02-10 11:38:28
Description: Dick French reads an excerpt from the preface to The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich, published by Walker and Company. (5:00) "Spring, 1543. Europe was in turmoil. The German princes had taken over the banner of Protestantism from an aging Martin Luther and Europe was poised on the brink of war."
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