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On 24 May 1543, Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543) lay in bed, dying of a brain hemorrhage. It is said that a copy of his book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies)—the publication of which he himself had delayed by nearly 30 years — was brought to his deathbed so that he could have a glimpse of it. In this book, he had detailed a system of the heavens with the Sun at the center and the planets going around it in fixed orbits.
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Padmanabhan, T., Padmanabhan, V. (2019). Making the Earth Move. In: The Dawn of Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17509-2_11
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