"This trilogy of novels concerned with outstanding Renaissance scientists appears for the first time in one volume: DR COPERNICUS, KEPLER and THE NEWTON LETTER."@en
"For the first time in one volume the award winning DR COPERNICUS (James Tait Black Award 1976); KEPLER (Guardian Fiction Prize 1981) & THE NEWTON LETTER (1982)."@en
"Sixteenth century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas. For in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks "the secret music of the universe" poses a most devastating threat."@en
"This novel captures the feel of that remote time when Copernicus postulated a universe centred around the sun - the solar system as we know it today."@en