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Dava Sobel is the author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, and A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos. In this appearance, she speaks with ABC Radio National’s Robin Williams about the latter – her account of the astronomer told through a curious coupling of narrative non-fiction and theatrical speculation.

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