Copernicus

This is the second part of our overview of the 2021 auction year – a year where investors channeled more of their wealth into “investments of passion” than ever before. It covers the 150 science, sci-fi and technology artifacts that sold for more than $100,000

A previously unknown first edition copy of Nicolas Copernicus’ landmark scientific text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), has sold at auction for £277,200 ($391,767).

The month of July, 2019 will be a bumper one for the number of landmark scientific artifacts heading for auction. Three Christie's auctions and a Sotheby's auction have a stellar array of landmark scientific items, some of them estimated to sell for quite affordable amounts.

Bonhams annual History of Science and Technology sale is a regular feature on the auction calendar and this year it will be held on December 7 with another treasure trove of significant artifacts of humanity's scientific heritage.

A close look at the world's most valuable scientific documents and manuscripts illustrates both how far science has come in a relatively short time, and how little we value our legacy in monetary terms.

A work of considerable scientific gravitas will auction on July 13, 2016, in London when the first printed book to propose that the Earth revolved around the Sun, De Libris Revolutionum Eruditissimi Viridoctoris, goes under the auctioneer's hammer.