An unabashedly Copernican treatise
A PRE-VESALIAN anatomy and a pioneering German surgical treatise are featured in the caption story below, while among the other scientific texts in an October 2 sale of early printed books held by Swanns were two important works by Kepler.
The first of these to be offered was a 1595, first of Prodromus dissertationum cosmographiae..., a T…