De revolutionibus orbium coelestium resides at the Archives of the University of Santo Tomas in the Miguel de Benavides Library. In January 2017, a second-edition copy was stolen as part of a heist of rare books from Heathrow Airport and remains unrecovered. English translations of "De revolutionibus" have included: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been
The Line of the Sun or American literature, which Socolovsky states can be a "common trope for understanding U.S. multicultural writers." The Line of the Sun The Line of the Sun, also titled "La Línea del Sol" in the Spanish translation, is a 1989 novel written by Puerto Rican-American author Judith Ortiz Cofer. The novel was originally published in English and tells the story of a Puerto Rican family who emigrates to the United States. The story depicts the cultural, social, and personal struggles of the family members to maintain their native culture in Puerto Rico and their new way of life in both the