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By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus wrote and hand-ripped a preliminary format of his heliocentric concept-where he defied good sense and obtained knowledge to put sunlight, not the earth, in the heart of our world, and established the earth rotating one of the different planets. Within the next 2 decades, his theory was expanded by Copernicus through countless findings, while producing in solution a book-length manuscript that tantalized researchers and mathematicians throughout Europe. For anxiety about ridicule, he declined to publish.In 1539, a German mathematician, Georg Joachim Rheticus, attracted by rumors of the revolution to rival the spiritual turmoil of Martin Luther's Reformation, moved to Poland to search out Copernicus. 2 yrs later, the Protestant childhood took leave of his aging Catholic coach and organized to possess Copernicus's manuscript printed, in 1543, as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)-the guide that permanently altered mankind's devote the universe.In her stylish, persuasive design, Dava Sobel chronicles, as nobody has, the contradictory people and remarkable developments that formed the Copernican Revolution.