Copernican heliocentrism
Heliocentrismo (De revolutionibus)
- Date
- 1543 · confidence high
- Place
- Frombork, Warmia, Poland
- Credited to
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- People
- 👤 Nicolás Copérnico1473–1543
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Copernicus placed the Sun at the centre and the Earth as just another planet, explaining retrograde motion and ordering the planets by distance. It began the Scientific Revolution.
Published in Nuremberg the year of his death; the 'Commentariolus' had circulated since c. 1514.
What it led to
- Scientific Revolution
- Kepler's laws
- Galileo's and Newton's physics
- Displacement of humanity from the centre of the cosmos