Nicolai Copernici ... Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui de Reuolutionibus orbium caelestium inscribitur

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“Nicolai Copernici ... Astronomia instaurata, libris sex comprehensa, qui de Reuolutionibus orbium caelestium inscribitur” is a book by Nicolaus Copernicus in the “Mathematics & Astronomy” category, written in Latin. It is in the public domain, so you can read it for free from the open source using the buttons above. If you enjoyed it, press Like to help others find it. Similar books are listed below.

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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was born in Toruń in Poland, studied in Kraków and in Italy, at Bologna, Padua and Ferrara, and spent most of his life as a canon of Frombork cathedral, working as an administrator and physician while observing the sky.

His book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, published in the year of his death, placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the centre of the universe. Historians have shown that he used mathematical models developed earlier by astronomers of the Islamic world, at the observatory of Maragha. Galileo took up his cause.