NEW YORK - 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, according to the Christie's auction house.

The rare first edition of "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (On the 
Revolutions of the
Heavenly Spheres) went for well more than the expected price of $1.2 
million, Christie's
reported after the sale. The book put forth Copernicus' theory that the 
sun, not the earth,
was at the center of the universe.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25219579

En snabb slagning i LIBRIS visar att boken finns fritt tillgänglig för 
alla som vill studera den
fantastiskt djärva teorin närmare. Det kostar ingenting

http://posner.library.cmu.edu/Posner/books/book.cgi?call=523.2_C78D_1543

Jan



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