by Jean-Pierre Luminet · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253120285
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«Le secret de Copernic» is the historical novel by Jean-Pierre Luminet, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback format (416 pages, in French).
The novel follows Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer, physician and canon, in sixteenth-century Poland, as he develops the heliocentric theory that challenges Ptolemy and Aristotle. Between Kraków and the Vatican, with stops in Bologna, Florence and Nuremberg, Dürer appears along with Farnese intrigues, in a setting of scientific and theological tensions.
First volume of the series «Les Bâtisseurs du ciel». The work was originally published in French in 2006; this edition is from 2008.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Renaissance, astronomy and the debate between science and religion.
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.
