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Owen Gingerich

Born

in Washington, Iowa, The United States

March 24, 1930

Died

May 28, 2023

Genre

Astronomy, History, Science

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Professor Owen Gingerich was a US astronomer. He served at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and as Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard University. He held memberships with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of the History of Science. Gingerich published over 500 technical or educational articles and reviews, along with writing more popularly on astronomy and the history of astronomy in books, encyclopedias, and journals.

Gingerich taught at Harvard University until his retirement in 2000. He continues to be a widely recognized authority on the Renaisannce astronomers Johannes Kepler and Nicolaus Copernicus, and on the French astronomer Ch ...more

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	The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus 3.79 avg rating — 628 ratings — published 2004 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God’s Universe by Owen Gingerich, Peter J. Gomes (Foreword) 3.85 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God’s Planet by Owen Gingerich, Randy Isaac (Foreword) 3.74 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction 3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nicolaus Copernicus: Making the Earth a Planet by Owen Gingerich, James MacLachlan 3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scientific Genius and Creativity : Readings from Scientific American 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmology + 1 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Annotated Census of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus: (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566) (Studia Copernicana - Brill Series, Volume 2) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The General History of Astronomy: Volume 4, Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950: Part A 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.”
― Owen Gingerich

tags: life, profundity, purpose, self-consciousness, universe

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“...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.”
― Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus

tags: libraries

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“The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.”
― Owen Gingerich, God’s Universe

tags: brain, complexity

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