http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/2017 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/harvard-science-historian-publishes-results-unprecedented-30-year-census-coper <!--paging_filter--><p>First published in 1543, Nicholas Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium introduced the world to the concept of a sun-centered universe. In it, Copernicus detailed how the motions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars could be explained if the earth orbited the sun -- a revolutionary idea. Starting in the 1970s, researcher Owen Gingerich began surveying all known copies of this work from its first two printings in 1543 and 1566.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/environments/articles/harvard-science-historian-publishes-results-unprecedented-30-year-census-coper">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:25:22 -0400 70652986 3267 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu