De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
Original 1543 Nuremberg edition
AuthorNicolaus Copernicus
LanguageLatin
SubjectAstronomy
PublisherJohannes Petreius
(Nuremberg)
Publication date
1543
Pages405

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.