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Copernican Revolution
The
Copernican Revolution
was the
paradigm shift
from the
Ptolemaic model
of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having
Earth
stationary at the center of the universe, to the
heliocentric model
with the
Sun
at the center of the
Solar System
. Beginning with the publication of
Nicolaus Copernicus
’s
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
, contributions to the “revolution” continued until finally ending with
Isaac Newton
’s work over a century later.
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