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  2. Copernican heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    The first is a general vision of the heliocentric theory, and a summarized exposition of his idea of the World. The second is mainly theoretical, presenting the principles of spherical astronomy and a list of stars (as a basis for the arguments developed in the subsequent books).

  3. Commentariolus - Wikipedia

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    The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. [1] After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).

  4. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Wikipedia

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    Book I chapters 1–11 are a general vision of the heliocentric theory, and a summarized exposition of his cosmology. The world (heavens) is spherical, as is the Earth, and the land and water make a single globe. The celestial bodies, including the Earth, have regular circular and everlasting movements.

  5. Heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    Seleucus may have proved the heliocentric theory by determining the constants of a geometric model for the heliocentric theory and developing methods to compute planetary positions using this model. He may have used early trigonometric methods that were available in his time, as he was a contemporary of Hipparchus . [ 23 ]

  6. Copernican Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric model. Copernicus studied at Bologna University during 1496–1501, where he became the assistant of Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara.He is known to have studied the Epitome in Almagestum Ptolemei by Peuerbach and Regiomontanus (printed in Venice in 1496) and to have performed observations of lunar motions on 9 March 1497.

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  8. Wittenberg interpretation of Copernicus - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus's heliocentric theory was inspired by the research of Aristotle and firmly followed the laws of natural science without consideration for divine intervention. [ 9 ] [ 8 ] That being said, at the introductory level Copernican theory was not entertained extensively because Peucer and other members of the circle believed the mechanisms ...

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