Image: Copernican heliocentrism (cropped) - In medio uero omnium residet Sol
Description: 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 v[=5]ima 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
Title: Copernican heliocentrism (cropped) - In medio uero omnium residet Sol
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Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
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