NMLP P-038012 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Nicolaus Copernicus · Johannes Petreius, Nuremberg · 1543

Petreium, Anno M. D. XLIII.' The defining textual point is the unsigned preface 'Ad lectorem de hypothesibus huius operis', which stands before Copernicus's own dedication to Pope Paul III: it was written by Andreas Osiander, the Nuremberg Lutheran who supervised the printing after Rheticus left for Leipzig, inserted without Copernicus's knowledge, and it recasts heliocentrism as a mere calculating hypothesis

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038012 for "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" by Nicolaus Copernicus (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038012, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).