Adam Savage ogles the first edition of "the most important science book ever written"

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I got to tour the rare book room at a science library. The coolest/oldest book I got to see was a first edition of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

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One time I was in the library of a mansion built in 1914 and there was a copy of Principia Mathematica. My hopes for reading it were dashed because it was entirely in Latin so I couldn’t make much use of it. :man_shrugging:

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