by Jean-Pierre Luminet · ZETA BOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498720402
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«El enigma de Copérnico» is a historical novel by Jean-Pierre Luminet, published by Zeta Bolsillo in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Nicolaus Copernicus through Kraków, the universities of Bologna and Florence, Nuremberg and the Vatican, in a Europe shaken by the Reformation. Luminet combines science, politics and the intrigues of the Farnese and portrays the astronomer who places the Sun at the center of the universe.
Volume 1 of the saga «Los constructores del cielo». Original title: «Le Secret de Copernic». Translation by Francisco Rodríguez de Lecea.
Reading for fans of historical fiction interested in the origins of the scientific revolution.
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.
