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Copernican (heliocentric/Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1761.
Copernican (heliocentric/Sun-centred) system of the Universe, 1761. Illustration showing the orbits of the planets around the Sun. The orbits of the moons of Earth, Jupiter and Saturn are also shown. Prior to the work of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work The Revolutions of Celestial Spheres, 1543, describes his idea of a Sun-centred universe, in which the Earth is merely one of the planets revolving around the Sun and rotating on its axis. (Paris, 1761).
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AR918805
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Image
Purpose
Public
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3115px × 3362px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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16TH CENTURY
18th century
Ann Ronan Pictures
astronomical chart
astronomical map
Astronomy
color
Copernican system
COPERNICUS
Cosmology
country
eighteenth century
Engraving
France
French
heliocentric universe
LOCATION
LUNAR
Moon
Nicolaus
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
ORBIT
Planets
Poland
Polish
Print Collector1
Science
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Solar System
Sun
Universe