According to the TLS the novel conveys "A profound awareness that man refuses to learn from history, because he is blind to the guises in which it repeats itself.".
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The novel’s astronomical theme touches on the discovery of Heliocentricity and the work of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.
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