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The Stuart and Mimi Rose Collection /

Nicolaus Copernicus

Item 13C

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

1543
First Edition

In 1543, this book presented a new approach to knowledge—and nothing was the same after it appeared. Copernicus was the first to propose a heliocentric theory of the cosmos, which describes the sun standing still and the earth revolving around it. In doing so, he set in motion one of the greatest ever shifts in the history of human thought.


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