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Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Type Object Region Europe Time 1543

Nicolaus Copernicus's Latin astronomical masterwork De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published in Nuremberg in 1543, first systematically propose…

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  1. 1543Nuremberg · NurembergCopernicus completed the final manuscript on his deathbed; Petreius printed and published it in Nuremberg as a six-volume Latin work, systematically setting out geometric models of Earth's revolution around the Sun and planetary motion.
  2. c. 1543–1550Universities and observatories across Europe · GlobalIn the 1540s De revolutionibus circulated among European universities and court astronomers, provoking discussion of the structure of the cosmos and laying the textual groundwork for the later research of Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo.

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