The term "Copernican Revolution" was coined by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant in his 1781 work Critique of Pure Reason. It was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the center of the universe, to the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the Solar System. This revolution consisted of two phases; the first being extremely mathematical in nature and beginning with the 1543 publication of Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, and the second phase starting in 1610 with the publication of a pamphlet by Galileo.[1] Contributions to the "revolution" continued until finally ending with Isaac Newton's 1687 work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.[2]
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