1972 MANUSCRIPT NICHOLAS COPERNICUS Limited Edition OVER 200 PLATES Scarce
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COPERNICUS
A LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION
FOR THE FIVE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
Polish Academy of Science
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THE MANUSCRIPT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS
1972
Limited Edition of 1500 Copies
With Over 200 Double Page Pla...tes of the Original Scans of The Manuscript
With Introduction
Nicolaus Copernicus 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
The publication of Copernicus' model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money—a key concept in economics—and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's law
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Publisher: Polish Academy of Science - Macmillan. London - Warsow
Edition: 1972 Limited Edition of 1500 Copies.
Attributes: In the Original binding and dust jacket. Full Copernicus Manuscript
Condition: a few closed tears to the dust jacket. a few marks to dust jacket. (heavier to the back) and library marker to the lower portion of the jacket. The book itself is bound in the original grey/brown stretched cloth covered binding with coloured portrait to the futon board. binding remains firm, small dent to he head of spine. pages secure. occasional library marking (barcode to the FFEP) and remnants of a sticker also to the FFEP.
Information: 30.5cm x 21cm approx 215 plates with introduction
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