W. Scott McCullough

Was Nicolaus Copernicus a heretic? His heliocentric model, published in 1543 in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), proposed that Earth rotates about its own axis and revolves around the sun, as do the planets. The question of heresy seems pointless because heliocentrism is now the cosmological air…