Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.


De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)


Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the...

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the...

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the...

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the...