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Kepler

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780330372336
  • Weight: 148g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Aug 2010
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

The second volume of John Banville's Revolutions Trilogy and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, Kepler is a gorgeous historical novel exploring the life of Johannes Kepler, one of Europe's greatest mathematicians.

Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler, by John Banville, brilliantly recreates his life and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe while being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world; rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.

‘Superbly illuminates the man, the time, and the everlasting quest for knowledge’ Observer
About John Banville
John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize and two further novels on scientific subjects, Doctor Copernicus and The Newton Letter. He has received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.