A work once said to have “…set the course for the modern world by its effective destruction of the anthropocentric view of the universe” made a rare auction appearance on December 4.
Sold for a record $160,000 (£125,985) at Christie’s New York (25/20/12.5%) was De lateribus et angulis triangulorum…,right, one of only three copies of a 1542 work by Copernicus seen at auction in the last 40 years.