For it is the duty of an astronomer to gather by careful and skilled observation the history of the celestial movements, and then to investigate their causes or hypotheses about them, and then to predict these movements correctly.
— Nicolaus Copernicus Early Modern

Heliocentric model of the solar system

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Preface to 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium'

Date / Period

1543

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Controversial

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30176/30176-h/30176-h.htm

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