NMLP P-038015 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Nicolaus Copernicus · Johannes Petreius, Nuremberg · 1543

Nuremberg 1543 is the true first; there is no UK-vs-US and no vernacular precedence question, the work being Latin from a German press. Later editions, none of them firsts: Basel, Henricus Petrus, 1566 (second — it also carries the Osiander preface, so the preface alone does not establish a 1543); Amsterdam, Nicolaus Mulerius, 1617 (third). English translations are modern and are first-thus only.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-038015 for "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" by Nicolaus Copernicus (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038015, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).