Copernican revolution

The expression copernican revolution is often used to refer to the set of physical, astronomical and cosmological transfomations that take part between the middle of XVI and the end of XVIII centuries. Oftenly, it is marked to begin with the publication of Nicholas Copernicus' De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (1543) and to end with the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687). The name and this conception came from the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, who develop this conception in a book entitled The Copernican Revolution.