De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, offered proof that the Earth went round the Sun, and not vice versa, as had been thought. This is the first edition of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of heavenly spheres), a seminal work that advanced a heliocentric theory of the universe


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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is now recognised as one of the fathers of modern science: his one great work, De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri sex (Six books on the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), garnered him immediate, if posthumous, fame Addeddate 2019-06-05 00:31:28 Coverleaf 0 Identifier OnTheRevolutionsOfTheHeavenlySpheres Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6647f50z

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres] publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) containing his mathematical proofs did not occur until 1543, after a supporter named Rheticus had impatiently taken it upon himself to publish a brief description of the Copernican system (Narratio prima) in 1541. Front Matter; First Book (Liber Primus) Second Book (Liber Secundus) Third Book (Liber Tertius)

. This is the first edition of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of heavenly spheres), a seminal work that advanced a heliocentric theory of the universe De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) of the Polish Renaissance.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 widely.

. The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, offered proof that the Earth went round the Sun, and not vice versa, as had been thought. Front Matter; First Book (Liber Primus) Second Book (Liber Secundus) Third Book (Liber Tertius)