Rare books stolen Copernicus text hit by thieves

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 15, 2000| Author: SERGEI SHARGORODSKY | Copyright information

MOSCOW Copies of one of the world's rarest and most valuable books have been disappearing - a rash of mysterious thefts that has perplexed police from the former Soviet Union to the United States.

The first-edition copies of 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' renowned treatise in Latin, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - which translates to On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres - have vanished from collections across the globe.

In Poland, a reader said he had to use...

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