Copernicus' secret : how the scientific revolution began
Copernicus gave the world perhaps the most important scientific insight of the modern age, the theory that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun. Supremely confident intellectually but hesitant to publish, Copernicus spent twenty years refining his manuscript, work which might have been lost if not for the efforts of an obscure young mathematics professor Georg Joachin Rheticus who traveled hundreds of miles and risked imprisonment to meet Copernicus
Print Book, English, 2008
1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 2008