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Science 30 April 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5671, p. 686
DOI: 10.1126/science.1097380
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Books

ASTRONOMY:
A History Recorded in the Margins

A review by Peter Barker

The Book Nobody Read Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
by Owen Gingerich
Walker, New York, 2004. 320 pp. $25, C$38.95. ISBN 0-8027-1415-3.

Gingerich describes the reception accorded Copernicus's De revolutionibus and his own adventures chasing extant copies and examining them for annotations and marginalia in order to refute Arthur Koestler's claim that the book was essentially unread.
The reviewer is in the Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, 601 Elm, Room 622, Norman, OK 73019-3106, USA. E-mail: barkerp{at}ou.edu

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