RESEARCH
Copernic Group Research
The publication of Copernicus’ model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Copernicus was still working on De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Heliocentrism
Some time before 1514 Copernicus made available to friends his “Commentariolus” (“Little Commentary”), a manuscript describing his ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis.