FRONTISPIECE: CULTURE CLUB/GETTY IMAGES
HIS LIFE’S WORK
Copernicus is shown at work in a 20th-century
painting by Jean-Léon Huens, commissioned
by the National Geographic Society. On the left
is the frontispiece of the 1566 second edition of
Copernicus’s life work, Six Books Concerning the
Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs, printed in Basel.
PORTRAIT: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/ALAMY/ACI