Copernican revolution

The expression Copernican revolution is often used to refer to the set of physical, astronomical and cosmological transfomations that happened between the middle of the sixteenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries. It is often regerded as beginning with the publication of Nicholas Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (1543) and ending with the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). The concept and its name come from the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, who developed it in his book The Copernican Revolution.