The Heliocentric Universe by Copernicus

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Illustration

Mark Cartwright
by www.bj.uj.edu.pl
published on 23 October 2020
The Heliocentric Universe by Copernicus Download Full Size Image

A 1520-41 CE illustration of the heliocentric view of our solar system from 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium' by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE). Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun. (Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, Poland)

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