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Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)


Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. Copernicus likely developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.

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