Though much of the story in Dava Sobel’s “A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos” (Walker & Co.: 274 pp., $25) is set up as you might find in any history book, the heart of ...

The next total solar eclipse may not occur in the United States for another two decades, but fans of astronomy will soon have a chance to dive deep into the cosmos in a slightly different way. In June ...

Few individuals have done as much to overturn people’s established view of The Way Things Are as Niklas Koppernigk, known to history by the Latinized version of his name, Nicolaus Copernicus. While he ...

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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 ...

A rare group of books featuring volumes by Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei that were collected by the late astronomer—and eclipse chaser—Jay Pasachoff is coming to the auction ...

A rare 1543 Nuremberg Press private copy of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres is for sale at the 58th annual New York Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A historic library in Germany that was ravaged by fire in 2004 has restored 118,000 books including a 471-year-old copy of astronomer Copernicus' work in which he argued the sun, ...

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The world has never lacked seekers of wisdom, however arduous to acquire; seekers of knowledge, however challenging to learn; and seekers of novelty, however threatening to appropriate. This seems to ...