Personal Life
Gingerich and his wife, Miriam, have been married for over 50 years. They have three sons, Mark, Peter, and Jonathan, as well as three grandchildren named Philip, Yasmin, and Dilara. They enjoy traveling, photography, and collecting both sea shells and rare books. Though they do not own a copy of the first edition of De revolutionibus (they own two second editions), his collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ephemerides (books that give day-by-day positions of the planets) is second only to that of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
Gingerich appears regularly on the Universe, a History Channel series.
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