Copernican revolution/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Copernican revolution.

Set of physical, astronomical and cosmological transfomations that happened between the middle of the sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries, often regarded as beginning with the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (1543).