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English: Latin text for and image of heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Latin text:

NICOLAI COPERNICI
net, in quo terram cum orbe lunari tanquam epicyclo conteneri
diximus. Quinto loco Venus nono mense reducitur. Sextum 
deniq[ue] locum Mercurius tenet, octaginta dierum spacio circu[m]
currens. In medio uero omnium residet Sol. Quis enim in hoc

(diagram heliocentric solar system with Sun and planets, captions:)

I. Stellarum fixarum sphaera immobilis.
II. Saturnus anno .XXX. reuoluitur.
III. Iouis .XII. annorum reuolutio.
IIII. Martis bi..ma reuolutio.
V. Telluris Terra cum orbe lunari annua reuolutio.
VI. Venus nonimestris.
VII. Mercurii .LXXX. Dierum.
Sol.

pulcherimo templo lampadem hanc in alio uel meliori loco po
neret, quàm unde totum simul possit illuminare. Siquidem non
inepte quidam lucerni mundam, alij mentem, alij rectorem uo-
cant. Trismegistus uisibilem Deum, Sophoclis Electra intuente[m]
omnia. Ita profecto tanquam in folio regali Sol residens circum
agentem gubernat Astrorum familiam. Tellus quoq[ue] minime
fraudatur lunari ministerio, sed ut Aristoteles de animalibus
ait, maxima[m] Luna cu[m] Terra cognatione[m] habet. Concipit interea à
Sole terra, & impregnatur annuo partu. Inuenibus igitur sub hac
Date circa 1543
date QS:P,+1543-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Image from http://sp2.dobremiasto.net/patron.html (image is not eligible for copyright), with small alterations by User:Omegatron
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Nicolaus Copernicus  (1473–1543)  wikidata:Q619 s:en:Author:Nicolaus Copernicus q:en:Nicolaus Copernicus
 
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Birth name: Niklas Koppernigk; Mikołaj Kopernik; Nikolaus Kopernikus; Copernicus; Niclas Koppernigk
Description Polish astronomer, jurist, economist, mathematician, legal scholar and physicist
Date of birth/death 19 February 1473 Edit this at Wikidata 24 May 1543 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Toruń Edit this at Wikidata Frombork Edit this at Wikidata
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