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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[charlie-meadows.livejournal.com]

"I wonder if Owen Gingerich will visit the server where it's housed..."

Gingerich could probably tell you which copy this is a scan of; he likely has seen and/or handled the physical original...


Bringing this into the current century, I wonder if it will now become "The Book No One Downloaded"...