Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus ;}}}}}} ; ; .}} (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) 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 '''' (''On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres''), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a semiautonomous and multilingual region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. From 1497 he was a Warmian Cathedral chapter canon. In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money—a key concept in economics—and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's law. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1972
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1943
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Published 1944
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1978
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1854
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1947
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1970
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1959
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1971
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1992
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1939
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1543
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1995
Published 1995
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 2002
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1976
Published 1976
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1617
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1972
Published 1972
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by Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543
Published 1992
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by Ptolemy, active 2nd century
Published 1952
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