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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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Copernicus's 1543 treatise placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the cosmos, triggering the scientific revolution in astronomy. Stephen Hawking chose it to open his anthology of the great works of physics and astronomy and wrote an accompanying essay and biography.
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Stephen Hawking
Selected and championed by Hawking as the opening work in 'On the Shoulders of Giants' (2002), with his own introductory essay and biography of Copernicus.