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Historic German library restores rare Copernicus book after blaze; Bethan John; Reuters

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A historic library in Germany that was ravaged by fire in 2004 has restored 118,000 books including a 471-year-old copy of astronomer Copernicus’ work in which he argued the sun, not the earth, was the centre of the universe.

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