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Dr. Owen Jay Gingerich (1930-) is a former Research Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University, and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. In addition to his research and teaching, he has written many books on the history of astronomy.
Gingerich is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of the History of Science. He has been active in the American Scientific Affiliation, a society of evangelical scientists, and is on the Templeton Foundation's Board of Trustees.
In 1543, one of the greatest scientific works made its debut: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), in which Nicolaus Copernicus radically altered the composition of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth, at the centre of the universe. But did anyone take notice? Four and a half centuries later, astrophysicist Owen Gingerich was intrigued by the bold claim - made by Arthur Koestler in his bestselling The Sleepwalkers - that sixteenth century Europe paid little attention to the groundbreaking, but dense, masterpiece. Gingerich embarked on a thirty year odyssey to examine every extant copy to prove Koestler wrong. Logging thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of miles - from Melbourne to Moscow; Boston to Beijing - Gingerich uncovered a treasure trove of material on the life of a book and the evolution of an idea. His quest led him to copies once owned by saints, heretics, and scallywags, by musicians, movie stars, medicine men, and bibliomaniacs; some hiding in plain sight, others almost lost to time and the whims of politics and the black market.
Part biography of a book and a man, part bibliographic and -philic quest, Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read is a captivating piece of writing, a testament to both the power of books and the power of the love of books.
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作者用了三十年时间来调查一本书的故事，30年，是一个人三分之一的人生哪！作者整套严谨的调查方式，研究过程都全程纪录下来，哪怕一丁点细节都不放过，我觉得他的治学精神是比物理知识、善本管理知识令我获益更多的地方。 觉得很奇怪，西方的学者总能找到一些有趣的学术上面的...
评分用30年热情追踪一本书 □书评人 傅月庵（发自台北） 发布时间： 2007-12-10 16:38 新京报 新书可贵，因为天地广阔，知识难得；旧书可爱，因为人间有情，相逢即缘。如今有一本新书，讲的却是旧书之事。一方面告诉你一个科学典范的递嬗过程，另一方面更带着你...
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