And the Sun Stood Still

by Dava Sobel
(2011)

In the spring of 1539, a young German mathematician--Georg Joachim Rheticus--journeyed hundreds of miles to northern Poland to meet the legendary, elderly cleric and reluctant astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Some two decades earlier, Copernicus had floated the mind-boggling theory that the Sun, not the Earth, was stationary at the center of the universe, and he was rumored to have crafted a book that could prove it. Though exactly what happened between them can never be known, Rheticus shepherded Copernicus's great work into production and De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ultimately changed the course of human understanding.

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Past productions listed on sci-stage.com
March 2014, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, Dairy Center for the Arts - Carsen Theatre, Boulder, CO, USA

And the Sun Stood Still on sci-stage.com
Copernicus Stage Premiere (March 2014)
Science on Stage 2013: A Year in Review (December 2013)
World Premiere of Dava Sobel's Copernicus Play in 2014 (May 2013)
Performance of Dava Sobel's Copernicus Play in US Virgin Islands (February 2013)

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