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June 16, 2008: Wellesley College Acquires a Masterpiece of Copernicus
"For an undisclosed price, the college purchased a second edition of his groundbreaking 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), published in 1566, which made the then-heretical claim the sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe."
