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Publication of Copernicus's De revolutionibus
In 1543 the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus's masterwork De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was published in Nuremberg, systematically proposi…
Timeline
- 1543Nuremberg · GermanyWith Andreas Osiander contributing to editing and the preface, Johann Petreius printed the six-volume De revolutionibus in Nuremberg, publishing Copernicus's heliocentric system in full for the first time.
Sources
- Nicolaus Copernicus https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres — Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)