De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. The book, first printed in 1543 CE in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an
Order of the heavenly spheres annotated with periods of revolution from Chapter 10 of Copernicus' manuscript
Title page, 2nd edition, Basel, Officina Henricpetrina, 1566
1543 edition held by University of Edinburgh Library
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The Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe was an irreversible break with the natural philosophy that had preceded it, fundamentally changing how the natural world was investig
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
…ancient astronomy, his radical shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric cosmology was a serious blow to Aristotle's science—and helped usher in the Scientific Revolution. Rheticus left Nürnberg to take up his post as professor in Leipzig. Andreas Osiander had taken over the task of supervising the printing and publication…
Portrait of Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller, 1689
Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Ottavio Leoni
A medieval university class, 1350s
Detail of a portrait of Cardinal Hugh of Saint-Cher (wearing spectacles), painted by Tommaso da Modena in 1352