Today on Radio 4 at 11am, this was a really thorough historical insight into De Revolutionibbus, Copernicus' book describing the heliocentric view of the solar system. Apparently the penny dropped much earlier in Copernicus' life. I had not realised that even De Rev got planetary motion slightly wrong as he included some of the 'epicycles' which Ptolemy needed to explain the apparently irrational movement of planets in his earth-centric model. Kepler was the guy that sorted out elliptical orbits.
But this was a no-nonsense overview of Copernicus, the 16th century genius, living in a remote part of what is now Poland, and how his book came to be printed shortly before his death.
But this was a no-nonsense overview of Copernicus, the 16th century genius, living in a remote part of what is now Poland, and how his book came to be printed shortly before his death.
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