A previously unknown first edition copy of Nicolas Copernicus’ landmark scientific text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), sold at auction for £277,200 ...

It was in 1543 that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the 1,400 year dominance of Ptolemaic cosmology when he published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of ...

A first edition of Nicolaus Copernicus' groundbreaking work, in which the Polish astronomer proposed that the Earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa, will be going up for sale next month. It ...

A copy of the first edition of "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium," an epoch-making 1543 treatise by the famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, is the centrepiece of an exhibition at the University ...

Christies will auction a work of considerable scientific gravitas on July 13 in London. It is a first edition of the first printed book to propose that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Rheticus ...

The ancient astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first scientist to document the theory that the sun is the center of the universe in his book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the ...

A copy of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' masterwork, printed in 1543, went for the out-of-this-world price of $2.2 million on Tuesday at a sale of more than 300 books of scientific significance, ...

Sane people right now are celebrating Valentine's Day. I am holed up trying to read Nicholas Copernicus's On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium). Having been an ...

In a recent archaeological excavation in the canonical gardens of Frombork, northern Poland, archaeologists have unearthed a 16th-century compass believed to have been used during the era of ...