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New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 400 g; XVI, 240 pages, includes notes and select sources, and index. Illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and art works, includes maps. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Neither the book nor the dust jacket show any sign of damage. "One of the transcendent geniuses of the early Renaissance, Copernicus was also a flawed and conflicted person. A cleric who lived during the tumultuous years of the early Reformation, he may have been sympathetic to the teachings of the Lutherans. Although he had taken a vow of celibacy, he kept at least one mistress." -- front fold over blurb. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Various. 8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. biography -- Astronomer.