![]() ![]() (The original handwritten version is kept at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, the university where Copernicus received his education. ![]() ![]() ![]() In many cases they annotated their copy, thereby making it even more valuable on today's rare-books market. All the major scientific figures who came after Copernicus owned copies of the book (though not necessarily the first edition), including Brahe, Kepler, Bacon, Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Halley. It is arguably the first scientific text of the modern scientific era.įirst published in 1543, there are 260 known copies still in existence from the first-edition printing of (it is thought) about 500, currently worth up to $400,000 each. For De revolutionibus, as it is more commonly known, was the book in which Copernicus first presented the heliocentric model of the solar system. The theft last month of a first edition copy of Nicolaus Copernicus's classic text De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the revolution of the heavenly spheres") was the seventh such disappearance of this valuable work in recent years - a chain of thefts that has left police from the United States to the former Soviet Union doing what the missing texts say the planets do around the sun: going round in circles. ![]()
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