In 1543, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus from Toruń ( Thorn ) published his work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and became the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

There is no doubt that Copernicus ' " De Revolutionibus " seeks to advance a sun-centered system, but in this book he had to resort to Ptolemaic devices ( viz., epicycles and eccentric circles ) in order to explain the change in planets ' orbital speed.

File: Nikolaus Kopernikus. jpg | Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473-1543 ): published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres ) in 1543-often considered the starting point of modern astronomy-in which he argued that the Earth and the other planets revolved around the Sun ( heliocentrism )

The geocentric model was nearly universally accepted until 1543 when Nicolaus Copernicus published his book entitled De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and was widely accepted into the next century.

* Possible date-Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become his heliocentric astronomy De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.

* May – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in Nuremberg.

* Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in Nuremberg ( these last two events can be considered as leading to the Scientific Revolution.

** Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Congregation of the Index of the Roman Catholic Church.

Nicolaus Copernicus | Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium at the Jagiellonian Library.

It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, including Copernicus ' De Revolutionibus and the Balthasar Behem Codex.

It is to Pope Paul III that Nicolaus Copernicus dedicated De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres ).

Nicolaus Copernicus had firmly moved the Earth away from the center of the universe with the heliocentric theory for which he presented evidence in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres ) published in 1543.

* 1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric theory in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

* 1543 — Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric universe in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

But Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( published in 1543, long after Novara's death ) records that on 9 March 1497 Novara witnessed Copernicus ' first observation.

Nicolaus Copernicus published a different account of trepidation in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( 1543 ).

Perhaps the most controversial and important work of the time period was a treatise printed in Nuremberg, entitled De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium: in it, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus removed the Earth from its privileged position in the universe, which had far-reaching effects, not only in science, but in literature and its approach to humanity, hierarchy, and truth.

While not attributing magnetism to attraction among the stars, Gilbert pointed out the motion of the skies was due to earth's rotation, and not the rotation of the spheres, 20 years before Galileo ( but 57 years after Copernicus who stated it openly in his work " De revolutionibus orbium coelestium " published in 1543 ) ( see external reference below ).

* Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church.

In the dedication to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( 1543 ), Copernicus mentioned the reform of the calendar proposed by the Fifth Council of the Lateran ( 1512 – 1517 ).

Nearly two-thousand years later Nicolaus Copernicus would mention in De revolutionibus that Philolaus already knew about the Earth's revolution around a central fire.

In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus presented a full discussion of a heliocentric model of the universe in much the same way as Ptolemy's Almagest had presented his geocentric model in the 2nd century.

Copernicus cited Aristarchus in an early ( unpublished ) manuscript of De Revolutionibus ( which still survives ) so he was clearly aware of at least one previous proponent of the heliocentric thesis.

Nicolaus Copernicus published the definitive statement of his system in De Revolutionibus in 1543.

In his " De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium ", in the year 1530, Nicolaus Copernicus quotes the works of al-Zarqali and Al-Battani.

In the sixteenth century Copernicus employed this model, modified to heliocentric form, in his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium.

Another autodidact, Nicolaus Reimers, in 1587 translated Copernicus ' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium into German for Bürgi.

( Additional information: Nicholas Copernicus mentions ' prosthaphaeresis ' several times in his work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, published in 1543, meaning the " great parallax " caused by the displacement of the observer due to the Earth's annual motion.

* De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium-( On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres ), Nicolaus Copernicus began to write De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium in 1506 and finished it in 1530.

Nicolaus Copernicus began writing De Revolutionibus in 1506, and finished in 1530.

* Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ) published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, which advanced the heliocentric theory of cosmology.

In 1543 Copernicus ' work on the heliocentric model of the solar system was published, in which he tried to demonstrate that the sun was the center of the universe.

Copernicus and his contemporaries were therefore using Ptolemy's methods and finding them trustworthy well over a thousand years after Ptolemy's original work was published.

Nunes knew Copernicus ' work but he only made a short reference to it in his published works, with the objective of correcting some mathematical errors.

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543 was the first mathematically predictive heliocentric model of a planetary system.

* Kepler Epitome of Copernican Astronomy ( Bks 4 & 5 ) published in Great Books of the Western World: 16 Ptolemy Copernicus Kepler Encyclopædia Britannica Inc 1952

His three-decade-long personal survey of Copernicus ’ great book De revolutionibus was recounted in The Book Nobody Read, published in 2004 by Walker & Co. That book and the research behind it earned him the Polish government ’ s Order of Merit in 1981.

Her first important article, Copernicus in Italy, was published in the Edinburgh Review in October 1877.

Copernicus ' values differed slightly from the ones published by Schöner in 1544 in Observationes XXX annorum a I. Regiomontano et B. Walthero Norimbergae habitae, Norimb.

Rheticus read Copernicus ' manuscript and immediately wrote a non-technical summary of its main theories in the form of an open letter addressed to Schöner, his astrology teacher in Nürnberg ; he published this letter as the Narratio Prima in Danzig in 1540.

Rheticus published it in Copernicus ' name.

It was published just before Copernicus ' death, in 1543.

Copernicus refers to trepidation in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium published in 1543.

* John Banville's novel Dr Copernicus is published.

In 1665, he published a mathematical-philosophical tract Placita Philosophica defending the geocentric universe against Copernicus and Galileo.