The manuscript of Nicholas Copernicus' On the revolutions
Subtitle: facsimile
By: edited by Paweł Czartoryski ; introduction by Jerzy Zathey ; translated by Zygmunt Nierada and Erna Hilfstein
Contributors: Czartoryski, Paweł, prof. dr. hab; Nierada, Zygmunt; Hilfstein, Erna; Zathey, Jerzy
Edition: [Limited facsim. ed.]
Series: His Complete works -- vol. I
Publisher: Macmillan; Polish Scientific Publishers
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London; Warsaw
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Astronomy -- Early works to 1800; Solar system -- Early works to 1800
Work titles: De revolutionibus orbium caelestium
Notes: On dust jacket: Copernicus, a limited facsimile edition for the five hundredth anniversary of his birth: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

"The Complete works of Nicholas Copernicus are published in three volumes. Volume I presents a reproduction, in full colour, of the autograph of Copernicus' Revolutions preserved in the Jagiellonian Library in Cracow, and an analysis of this manuscript."--p. ix