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Ksenia Chepikova – Producer of Copernicus: The True Story of a Revolution in Astronomy
Today, we take it for granted that the Earth rotates on its axis and orbits the Sun. But this was not always accepted fact. It took nearly 150 years for Copernicus’s heliocentric hypothesis to gain a foothold among scholars, and another 150 before it appeared in school textbooks. Yet this long revolution might never have begun if an uninvited guest had not knocked on Copernicus’s door one spring day.
His name is found in no textbook, but without him, the revolutionary book On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres would never have been published. Copernicus himself had no intention of printing his work. So why did he refuse? How did the manuscript reach a mysterious stranger who not only edited and published it, but became its first champion in the scientific community? And why did so few believe him?
This man can rightly be called the producer of Copernicus. Without Georg Joachim Rheticus, we might never have known about the great astronomer or his theory. This book tells the untold story of the man behind the revolution.