''The Copernicus Legacy'' is a book series written by

Tony Abbott Anthony John Abbott (; born 4 November 1957) is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parli ...

. It is about the adventures of Wade Kaplan, Darrell Kaplan, Lily, Becca Moore, Roald Kaplan, and Sara Kaplan as they try to destroy a time machine made by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

but discovered and used by

Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...

, from the dangerous Teutonic Order of Ancient

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. It currently has four books in the main series, but two are in a series diverted from ''The Copernicus Legacy'' called ''Copernicus Archives''. While a work of fiction, it does incorporate some facts about Copernicus's history.

Books

*''The Forbidden Stone'' (2014) *''Copernicus Archives'': ''Wade and the Scorpion's Claw'' (2014) *''The Serpent's Curse'' (2014) *''Copernicus Archives'': ''Becca and the Prisoner's Cross'' (2015) *''The Golden Vendetta'' (2015) *''The Crown of Fire'' (2016)

References

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