From plagiarism to planetary corrections, we take a look at Copernicus and the introduction of heliocentricity.

When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the ...

When it was first put forth nearly 500 years ago, the Copernican model of the Solar System presented a fascinating alternative to the mainstream explanation.

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer whose revolutionary heliocentric theory changed our understanding of the universe. At a time when the Catholic Church endorsed a geocentric model ...

The Copernican model of the universe The cornerstone of Copernicus’s contributions to science was his revolutionary model of the universe. Contrary to the prevailing Ptolemaic model, which maintained ...

In this paper, I offer a different explanation: that the pre-Copernican heliocentrism was essentially different from the Copernican heliocentrism, in such a way that the adduced advantages of ...

Rare, pristine first edition of Copernicus’ De Revolutionibus up for sale Edition will be exhibited at New York International Antiquarian Book Fair next month.

It’s common to hear the request for a model that looks a lot more like NASA’s than Copernicus’ model of the universe although many times, the data to create such as model does not yet exist.

Some would have us believe that Father Nicolaus Copernicus was fearful of publishing his heliocentric model because of the Catholic Church. This is completely untrue. In fact, a pope, two ...

A previously unknown first edition copy of Nicolas Copernicus’ landmark scientific text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), has sold at auction ...

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 ...