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    Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the universe. His seminal book "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres", published just before his death in 1543, is considered the starting point of modern astronomy as it demonstrated that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without Earth being at the center. His work stimulated further scientific investigations and became a landmark in the history of science, known as the Copernican Revolution.

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the universe. His seminal book "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres", published just before his death in 1543, is considered the starting point of modern astronomy as it demonstrated that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without Earth being at the center. His work stimulated further scientific investigations and became a landmark in the history of science, known as the Copernican Revolution.

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the universe. His seminal book "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres", published just before his death in 1543, is considered the starting point of modern astronomy as it demonstrated that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without Earth being at the center. His work stimulated further scientific investigations and became a landmark in the history of science, known as the Copernican Revolution.

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    Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to

    formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the
    center of the universe.[1]

    Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of


    the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the
    starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific
    revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe,
    demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without
    putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific
    investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as
    the Copernican Revolution.

    Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician,


    astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist,[2]
    Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his
    many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation — yet it was
    in that field that he made his mark upon the world.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

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