by John Banville · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749390761
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«Doctor Copernicus» is the historical novel by Irish writer John Banville, published by Random House UK in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The novel recreates the life of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) and how his heliocentric theory toppled the medieval vision of the universe. Banville explores the personal and religious cost of a discovery that removed the Earth from the center of the cosmos, and the tension between science and faith in an age of profound change.
First installment of The Revolutions trilogy and of John Banville's scientific tetralogy. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1976. This edition was published in 1990.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in biographies of scientists and in conflicts between faith and reason.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
