From Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing, Harvard astrophysicist Owen Gingerich traveled the world to read one book. 600 copies of it, to be exact. What book? Nicolaus Copernicus' highly influential text which suggested the Sun, and not the Earth, was at the center of the universe.
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The Book Nobody Read
Listen Thursday, Mar. 4, 2004 at 1:32 p.m. in Religion, ScienceGuests
Owen Gingerich
author; senior astronomer emeritus, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and research professor of astronomy and the history of science, Harvard University
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