Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the solar system. His epochal book, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in all the history of science. Among the great polymaths of the Scientific Revolution, … Wikipedia
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