Commentariolus

Copernicus probably hit upon his main idea sometime between 1508 and 1514, and during those years he wrote a manuscript usually called the Commentariolus (“Little Commentary”).

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Sometime between 1510 and 1514 he wrote an essay that has come to be known as the Commentariolus (MW 75-126) that introduced his new cosmological idea, the heliocentric universe, and he sent copies to various astronomers.

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In 1471 a graduate of Leipzig wrote a pamphlet entitled Commentariolus historicus de adolescentibus Parisiensibus, per Buridanum, natione Picardum, ab illicitis cuiusdam reginae Franciae amoribus retractis.

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Copernicus is believed to have come up with his main idea of the Sun at the center of the universe between 1508 and 1514, and during those years wrote a manuscript commonly known as Commentariolus (Little Commentary).

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Copernicus is believed to have come up with his main idea of the Sun at the center of the universe between 1508 and 1514, and during those years wrote a manuscript commonly known as Commentariolus (Little Commentary).

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Copernicus is believed to have come up with his main idea of the Sun at the center of the universe between 1508 and 1514, and during those years wrote a manuscript commonly known as Commentariolus (Little Commentary).

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His only astronomical writings were the Commentariolus, the

Nicolaus Copernicus Rabin, Sheila 2005

His first heliocentric writing was his Commentariolus.

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Commentariolus, Copernicus did not mention it in book 1, but he sought to replace it with an epicyclet throughout On the Revolutions.

Nicolaus Copernicus Rabin, Sheila 2005

The Commentariolus was only intended as an introduction to Copernicus's ideas, and he wrote “the mathematical demonstrations intended for my larger work should be omitted for brevity's sake ¦” (MW 82).

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