On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres: Book One (Illustrated)

Of all the accomplishments achieved during the Renaissance, none were as universal as Nicolaus Copernicus’s heliocentric theory of the solar system, literally. 1500 years after Ptolemy’s theory that Earth was the center of the universe, Copernicus spun astronomy on its head with his famous De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres),

In addition to changing astronomy, Copernicus’s empirical methods are often considered one of the important forerunners of...