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Fleeting First Edition Copernicus Books Vanish Worldwide
The world rarity De revolutionibus disappears from libraries amid a string of thefts. Interpol joins Russian inquiries into a St. Petersburg loss valued up to 400000 dollars. Harvard Smithsonian’s Owen Gingerich traces missing copies and warns against selling stolen copies.
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Moscow
Unio
United States
Copernicus
Kiev
Ukraine
Russia
Interpe
Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg
University of Ilinois
Champaign-Urbana
Mittag-Leffler Institute
Stockholm
Sweden
Owen Gingerich
Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics
Cambridge
Mass
Gingerich
Brno
Czech Republic
Germany
Pulkovo Observatory