Here, scientific research is very closely linked with philosophical questions. The work by Copernicus is a milestone of astronomy and its significance for the scientific and cultural history of the modern era can hardly be overestimated. The masterful treatise comprised six volumes, which are illustrated with a total of 148 woodcut diagrams. His theories were based in mathematics and science and did away with religious superstition. The findings of Copernicus regarding the Earth and the Universe were groundbreaking in every regard. It is a key work of the so-called Copernican Revolution and is considered to be a paradigm for a scientific revolution, in which the reigning medieval geocentric worldview was replaced by a heliocentric one. The work belongs among the milestones of astronomy during the modern era. The translated title of the work is On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in Six Books. In the year 1543, the first edition of the primary work by Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI was published in Nuremberg. Nicolaus Copernicus - De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI The Most Beautiful Books of Hours and Prayer Books The Most Beautiful Facsimiles Under 1,000€
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