Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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In this book, printed in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus first presented a full heliocentric theory, a solar system in which the earth orbited the sun. Some of the calculations in the book were made by Bernhard Walther (1430–1504) and sent to Copernicus by Johann Schöner.  In this landmark publication, Copernicus also discusses the “discovery” of the New World and quotes from the Cosmographiae introductio of Waldseemüller and Ringmann.
In this book, printed in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus first presented a full heliocentric theory, a solar system in which the earth orbited the sun. Some of the calculations in the book were made by Bernhard Walther (1430–1504) and sent to Copernicus by Johann Schöner.  In this landmark publication, Copernicus also discusses the “discovery” of the New World and quotes from the Cosmographiae introductio of Waldseemüller and Ringmann.