A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos

During the 1530s, rumors began to spread throughout Europe of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland. Its architect was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. Around 1514, Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of our universe, with the planets, including the Earth, revolving about it. Titled his Commentariolus, it circulated ...