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Title | De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) |
Author | Copernicu, Nicolaus or Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) |
Contributors | Annotated by the Offusius circle of mid-16th-century Paris astronomers. The marginalia offers insight into the initial reception of Copernicus by Catholic astronomers |
Pagination | Leaf - Page Number - Recto/Verso |
Description | On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres presents Copernicus's evidence and arguments for heliocentric theory, principally that the Earth revolves around the sun, contrasting with the Ptolemaic, or geocentric model, which maintained the Earth was the center of the universe |
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Astronomy Heliocentric theory |
Publication Place | Norimbergae (Nuremberg), 1543 |
Additional Work | Narratio Prima (First Report) |
Author of Additional Work | Rheticus, Georg Ioachimus or Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1576) |
Description of Additional Work | Rheticus published Narratio Prima as a primer to Copernicus's De revolutionibus in 1540. This copy of Narratio Prima was bound together with De rev |
Date of Additional Work | 1540 |
Language | Latin |
Type | Text |
Physical Object | Monograph |
Special Collection | History of Science Collections |
Rights | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Title | De rev |
Pagination | Folio XXXI verso |
Description | Liber Secundus (Book II) |
Chapters | Ch. 3. On the arcs and angles of intersecting circles of the equator, the constellation bearer (ecliptic), and the meridian, from which follows their declination and straight ascension, and the computation of them |
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