Review of "The Book Nobody Read"…
Posted by nickpelling on Jul 25th, 2008 - 2 comments.
In his 1959 book "The Sleepwalkers", Arthur Koestler painted a rather damning picture of Renaissance European astronomers and scientists, where the only person not sleepwalking was Kepler. As part of the process of tarring everyone else with the same soporific brush, Koestler derided Copernicus' famous "De Revolutionibus" as "The Book Nobody Read".
It's true that only a small proportion of "De ...
