Digitized De Revolutionibus
A weekend note about Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus, which I’ve mentioned before. I hope to post a couple more things about it, so here’s something for future reference: Octavo make available a digitized copy of De Revolutionibus. Have a look.
I skimmed through a few pages and didn’t see any annotations, but I didn’t look at it all. This item comes from the Warnock Library in Oakland, California, and Gingerich’s Census will give full notes on it. The other books from their collection digitized at Octavo are by Newton, Ben Franklin, Dr. Johnson, Robert Hooke, and others.
The same pictures are available at Rare Book Room but the interface is a bit awkward and it will resize your browser window. Here’s De Revolutionibus at the Rare Book Room.
So, two identical copies of the same digitization of the same item. FRBRously intriguing.