De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI: Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & ædito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex veteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus observationibus restitutos: & novis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quodvis tempus quàm facillime calculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere ...
Nuremberg: Johann Petreius, 1543. First edition, and an unusually fine copy, of the most important scientific publication of the sixteenth century – a “landmark in human thought” (PMM). De revolutionibus was the first work to propose a comprehensive heliocentric theory of the cosmos, according to which the sun stood still..... More
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