Doctor Copernicus
A Novel

The Heliocentric Revolution While reading this first novel in John Banville’s "Revolutions Trilogy", I was often unclear about exactly what I had got myself into. Was it a novel of ideas, or an historical novel that would dramatise the Copernican Revolution, Copernicus’ proof of the theory that the un......more

L'importanza di guardare fuori dalla finestra Il romanzo inizia con una bella immagine vivida: qualcosa che si agita fuori dalla finestra nell'aria dorata e un bimbo piccino nel lettino che lo guarda. Albero e tiglio sono fra le prime parole che impara. Banville ci racconta la laboriosa vita di Copern......more

I really liked the early portions of this book: Copernicus is clearly a very different, individual thinker, and his perceptions of things and people, his frequent in ability to understand them, as well as his joy in ideas, was fascinating. The later portions, especially the third section, narrated b......more

I so wanted to read a historical fiction about Nicolas Copernicus, but this story is so descriptive. It was simply unbearable to read.......more

This book was a dismal view of life in the Renaissance and Copernicus's personal life. It is fictional, of course, developed from the few known details of his life (dates, places, relatives and who he might have studied with or under). The author makes Copernicus out to be a wimpy, tortured soul whi......more