The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down

[beamjockey]

I just mentioned this in a comment to james_nicoll, but it seems worth noting here.

apostle_of_eris has just pointed out that a facsimile of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is online.

(I wonder if Owen Gingerich will visit the server where it's housed, looking for notes in the margins of the hard disks?)

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[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

IIRC, I posted that to the General Tecnics listserv . . .
I can't figure out if this post of Bill's now makes the thread multi-media, or if this is just more Living in the Future. Which, of course, being able to pull up images of the original Copernicus is . . .
Multi-modal? Some neologism I haven't encountered yet?