Collection Highlight: Copernicus's De revolutionibus

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). 
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI. Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1566.

Copernicus wrote De revolutionibus at the cathedral in Frauenburg (now Frombork) in the northernmost diocese in Poland. Being far away from the main European universities and printing shops, it is very unlikely that Copernicus would have seen his astronomical treatise printed except for the active role of Georg Joachim Rheticus, a young professor of astronomy from Lutheran Wittenberg. 

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