NMLP P-038016 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Nicolaus Copernicus · Johannes Petreius, Nuremberg · 1543

No book-club era applies. The donor-realistic forms are facsimiles and modern reprints, and these are the tells to check: the numbered, limited facsimile printed in 1943 for the quatercentenary; and the 1972 facsimile from Macmillan / Polish Scientific Publishers / Johnson Reprint Corporation, edited by P. Czartoryski with an introduction by Jerzy Zathey. Modern photographic facsimiles also circulate. Any copy on modern white wove paper, or carrying a modern limitation or colophon leaf, a modern editorial introduction, or a publisher's cloth binding, is a facsimile — not the Petreius sheets. The Great Books of the Western World / Encyclopaedia Britannica set volume is a modern translation, not an edition of the 1543.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038016 for "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" by Nicolaus Copernicus (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038016, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).