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The sleepwalkers : a history of man's changing vision of the universe

by Arthur Koestler, Herbert Butterfield

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Accession 10889 ISBN — Publisher Penguin
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Nicolaus Copernicus (b.1473, d.1543), Galileo Galilei (Italian, b.1564, d.1642), Isaac Newton (b.1643, d.1727), Johannes Kepler (German, b.1571, d.1630), Tycho Brahe (Danish, b.1546, d.1601)
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