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Jack Oughton De Revolutionibus - A Book Nobody Read? e RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium(On TheRevolutionsOf TheHeavenlySpheres)is the ultimate work of the multi-talented reclusive genius, Nicolaus Copernicus. It is known as the writing that began the... More

Jack Oughton De Revolutionibus - A Book Nobody Read? e RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium(On TheRevolutionsOf TheHeavenlySpheres)is the ultimate work of the multi-talented reclusive genius, Nicolaus Copernicus. It is known as the writing that began the Copernican Revolution, one of the most significant astronomical paradigm shifts in human history, dislodging the millennia old geocentric hypothesis. It has also been argued that this book was the catalyst for the ScientificRevolutionof the 16 th century. The scientific revolution saw massive progress made in everything from biology to chemistry, as the limiting shackles of millennia of religious dogma and persecution began to loosen their grip on thought in Europe. D De Revolutionibus’titlepage,Second Edition. Arthur Koestler was a Hungarian born polymath, who immigrated to the UK in the 1940s. A driven man, he renounced his Jewish religious heritage, became an outspoken critic of Communism, was Knighted in the 1970s, and as a lifelon Less