Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier. The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just before his death in 1543, w
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Mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
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2001-11-20T16:58:54Z
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2024-09-05T22:01:26Z
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