RE: Fred Hoyle's `Mathematics of Evolution'

John E. Rylander (rylander@prolexia.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 23:26:59 -0600

> John E. Rylander wrote:
>
> >I think this is substantially overstated. Copernicus didn't
> keep his mouth
> >shut. (I'm thinking of On the Revolutions of the Celestial
> Spheres; perhaps
> >you're thinking of something else, something that he did suppress?)
>
> Encarta:
> "Sometime between 1507 and 1515, he completed a short astronomical
> treatise, "De Hypothesibus Motuum Coelestium a se Constitutis
> Commentariolus" (known as the "Commentariolus"), not published until the
> 19th century, in which he laid down the principles of his new astronomy.
> After moving to Frauenburg in 1512, Copernicus began his major work, "De
> Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium," finished by 1530 but not
> published until
> just before his death in 1543."
>

Oops. :^>

I remembered he published Revolutions in his lifetime and well before
Galileo; I'd forgotten it was published right before his death.

Thanks. :^>