Commentariolus
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The Commentariolus (Litte Commentary) is a work by Nicolaus Copernicus in which he outlined his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the solar system. While his major work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was published in 1543 in six books, he had written a preliminary manuscript description of an earlier version of the theory, entitled the Commentariolus, sometime before 1515. Some scholars believe it was as late as 1533 due to the maturity of the theory.[1]
It is unknown who received the manuscript, and when. However, people urged him to publish, namely Nikolaus Cardinal von Schönberg, the Archbishop of Capua, in 1535. Georg Joachim Rheticus and Tiedemann Giese then were instrumental for publishing of De revolutionibus itself.
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- ^ Alexandre Koyré, The Astronomical Revolution: Copernicus – Kepler – Borelli, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Pr., 1973), pp. 25-28, 85-86.
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