Nicolaus Copernicus’s book is banned

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5 March, 1616

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, the seminal book by Nicolaus Copernicus, was added to Index of Forbidden Books, essentially banned, on 5th March 1616. This was 73 years after the book was first published.