The History of Marginalia: censorship @statelibraryvictoria
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Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In the second episode of our three-part series on the history of marginalia, Des Cowley (Principal Librarian of History of the Book and Arts) and Anna Welch (Senior Librarian of History of the Book and Arts) examine a heavily censored 1566 edition of Nicholas Copernicus's 'On the revolutions of the heavenly sphere'.

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