Uncentering the Earth / Copernicus and "The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"; William T. Vollmann; Atlas Books: 296 pp., $22.95 ...

Henrietta, N.Y. — A piece of science history now sits at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nicolaus Copernicus'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly ...

Then an avid young Boswell named Rheticus cajoled the aging scholar into publishing On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. On his’ dying day, May 24, 1543, a comatose Copernicus fingered ...

Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus's 1543 book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, moved Earth from being the centre of the Universe to just another planet orbiting the Sun. Since then ...

It was in 1543 that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the 1,400 year dominance of Ptolemaic cosmology when he published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of ...

The ancient astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was the first scientist to document the theory that the sun is the center of the universe in his book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the ...

In the history of science few developments have been more important than the advent of the new heliocentric cosmology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Whereas most of the ancient Greeks ...

Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus’s 1543 book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, moved Earth from being the centre of the Universe to just another planet orbiting the Sun.