Dr. Owen Jay Gingerich (1930-) is a former Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University, and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching, he has written many books on the history of astronomy.
Gingerich is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of the History of Science. He has been active in the American Scientific Affiliation, a society of evangelical scientists, and is on the Templeton Foundation's Board of Trustees.
发表于2024-12-23
The Book Nobody Read 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本书远不像介绍中写的那样精彩好看,它吸引我掏银子的原因除了它的题目之外就是“我这篇评论的题目”。 忽略掉书中关于天文学的部分和我们所不了解的欧洲科学史和偏门历史方面的东西,其余的部分…… 呃,的确只剩下一小部分,就是这哥们全世界搜书的过程,搜的这本书是哥白...
评分本來以為只不過是另一本談科學革命歷史的書,沒想到裡面對於善本書追蹤的歷程意外有趣(果然各個領域都是專業的才知道門路啊),不過可能要對於天體運行論發表前後的歷史有點基本概念,才會比較容易讀。 開頭就是談到真有人會偷圖書館善本書去賣,而研究者在研究善本...
评分这本书远不像介绍中写的那样精彩好看,它吸引我掏银子的原因除了它的题目之外就是“我这篇评论的题目”。 忽略掉书中关于天文学的部分和我们所不了解的欧洲科学史和偏门历史方面的东西,其余的部分…… 呃,的确只剩下一小部分,就是这哥们全世界搜书的过程,搜的这本书是哥白...
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In 1543, one of the greatest scientific works made its debut: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus radically altered the composition of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe. But did anyone take notice? Four and a half centuries later, astrophysicist Owen Gingerich was intrigued by the bold claim - made by Arthur Koestler in his bestselling The Sleepwalkers - that sixteenth century Europe paid little attention to the groundbreaking, but dense, masterpiece. Gingerich embarked on a thirty year odyssey to examine every extant copy to prove Koestler wrong. Logging thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of miles - from Melbourne to Moscow; Boston to Beijing - Gingerich uncovered a treasure trove of material on the life of a book and the evolution of an idea. His quest led him to copies once owned by saints, heretics, and scallywags, by musicians, movie stars, medicine men, and bibliomaniacs; some hiding in plain sight, others almost lost to time and the whims of politics and the black market.
Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and -philic quest, Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read is a captivating piece of writing, a testament to both the power of books and the power of the love of books.
In pursuit of Copernicus
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The Book Nobody Read 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书