Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus
1543
On his deathbed, the Polish canon Nicolaus Copernicus received a printed copy of his long-hidden De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. It argued that the Earth was a planet, circling the Sun at the center of the universe. Copernicus died the same day, perhaps before he fully understood what he had unleashed.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.