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Enduring Legacy

On October 28, 2011 By dava

Being interviewed by NPR’s science correspondent Joe Palca would have been thrill enough, but he also chose the perfect venue for our meeting on Thursday (October 27) — at the Dibner Library of the History of Science & Technology, a trove of rare books and manuscripts tucked inside the National Museum of American [...]

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Missing Person

On September 7, 2011 By dava

Contemporary portraits from the sixteenth century depict nearly all of the key figures in Copernicus’s life story – his fellow astronomers and churchmen, the printer who published his magnum opus, a few friends and family, the enemies who opposed him, and the royalty who commanded his allegiance. The sole and surprising exception –  the missing [...]

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How I Learned to Write My Own Name

On August 31, 2011 By dava

For the launch of A More Perfect Heaven at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Saturday (August 27), two Scottish actors took the roles of Copernicus and Rheticus, and read aloud scenes from the play-within-the-book, “And the Sun Stood Still.” A local reporter from The Scotsman interviewed me on stage and moderated a question-and-answer session. Of the several hundred [...]

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