Doctor Copernicus

Doctor Copernicus is a novel by John Banville, first published in 1976.

"A richly textured tale" about Nicolaus Copernicus,[1] it won that year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

The fourth focuses on the great scientist's death.

Thirty years after it first appeared, Brian McIlroy praised Doctor Copernicus for its "great intellectual ambition."

Linda Hutcheon, in A Poetics of Postmodernism, wrote that it is a "historiographic metafiction.