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  • However, the book that contains the final version of his theory, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi (“Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs”), did not appear in print until 1543, the year of his death.

    Five People Born on February 19 | myFiveBest 2010

  • Protip: the answer to your question is to be found in Books II and V of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Common Sense 2009

  • Protip: the answer to your question is to be found in Books II and V of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Common Sense 2009

  • The Danish astronomer's book "de revolutionibus orbium coelestium" on the revolution of the celestial spheres, published in 1543, was the first scientific work to remove the Earth from the center of the universe, and to explain the motion of the Earth in an orbit around the sun, along with the other planets, pretty much as we understand it today.

    Next Generation: June 2008 2008

  • The Danish astronomer's book "de revolutionibus orbium coelestium" on the revolution of the celestial spheres, published in 1543, was the first scientific work to remove the Earth from the center of the universe, and to explain the motion of the Earth in an orbit around the sun, along with the other planets, pretty much as we understand it today.

    Next Generation: Books 2008

  • The Danish astronomer's book "de revolutionibus orbium coelestium" on the revolution of the celestial spheres, published in 1543, was the first scientific work to remove the Earth from the center of the universe, and to explain the motion of the Earth in an orbit around the sun, along with the other planets, pretty much as we understand it today.

    Next Generation: A Chance to Touch Astronomical History 2008

  • The Polish astronomer NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (Niklas Kopernik) (1473–1543) published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, which asserted that the planets, including the earth, circle around a stationary sun.

    2. Science and Learning, 1450-1700 2001

  • Gauss expounded his new “least-squares” method of computing planetary orbits in Theoria motus corporum coelestium.

    4. Science and Learning 2001

  • His mathematics was still largely Ptolemaic, and only a bare outline of a mathe - matical background space is discernible in his De revo - lutionibus orbium coelestium.

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • Nam si te movet quia Spiritum dixit, et hoc non putas derivandum ad mysterium assumptionis humanae; prosequere scripturas et invenies optime congruere de Christo, de quo bene convenit aestimari, quia firmavit tonitrua adventu suo; vim videlicet et sonum coelestium scripturarum; quarum velut quodam tonitru mentes nostrae redduntur attonitae, ut timere discamus, et reverntiam coelestibus deferamus oraculis.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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