by Jean-Pierre Luminet · EDB FICCION · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466631419
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«El enigma de Copérnico» is the historical novel by Jean-Pierre Luminet, published by EDB FICCION in hardcover (336 pages, in Spanish).
In the sixteenth century, the Polish astronomer and canon Nicolaus Copernicus challenges the theories of Ptolemy and Aristotle: the Earth revolves around the Sun. The plot takes him from Kraków to Bologna, Florence, Nuremberg and the Vatican, amid Farnese intrigues and encounters with Dürer. His assistant Rheticus, who urges him to publish his work, makes fateful decisions.
Volume 1 of the series Los constructores del cielo. Translation by Francisco Rodríguez de Lecea of the French original Le Secret de Copernic.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the history of science and sixteenth-century Europe.
Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology. He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS. Luminet is a member of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and is a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He is also a writer and poet.
