Translate Latin texts

Try translating these Latin texts

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Title page of the first edition of “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium”, first published in Nuremberg, Germany in 1543.

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Title (detail). Can you translate this?

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Text on frontpage (detail). The publisher advertises: buy read and enjoy this book.

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Have a go at translating the names of the celestial bodies in Copernicus' diagram of the Universe.

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Copernicus'letter to “His holiness, Pope Paul III…”, in which he states that readers will be shocked by the new theory. This letter was meant to take away the heat from his ideas in a time when the Church was not open to them.
 

 

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