Dr. Copernicus (Part One of the Scientific Trilogy)
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"Dr. Copernicus" is the opening work of Irish literary master John Banville's "Scientific Trilogy" and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. The novel is set in the turbulent Europe of the 16th century and tells the life of Nicolaus Copernicus, the founder of modern astronomy. During his medical and teaching career in remote areas of Poland, Copernicus not only had to face the chaotic political situation and church conspiracies, but he was also deeply involved in the complicated and entangled family ties with his brother Andrei. Surrounded by loneliness, doubt and the shadow of death, he always maintained his persistent pursuit of the order of the universe. With delicate, cold and extremely poetic writing, Banville restored a "mortal" Copernicus who struggled between reason and faith, truth and fiction, showing how he extracted the "secret music of the world" from complex appearances, and finally proposed the "heliocentric theory", breaking the medieval cosmology and opening a new era of science.
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