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Bookmark or Share- Nicolaus Copernicus - WikipediaNicolaus Copernicus[ b ] (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.
- Copernican principle - WikipediaIn physical cosmology, the Copernican principle states that humans, on the Earth or in the Solar System, are not privileged observers of the universe, [1] that observations from the Earth are representative of observations from the average position in the universe.
- Copernican Revolution | History, Science, & Impact | BritannicaCopernican Revolution, shift in the field of astronomy from a geocentric understanding of the universe, centred around Earth, to a heliocentric understanding, centred around the Sun, as articulated by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century.
- Nicolaus Copernicus - World History EncyclopediaNicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer, he thought the Earth revolved around the Sun (a heliocentric system), he thought the Earth turns on its axis each day, he published his ideas in 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres", and the Church saw his ideas as blasphemous.
- Copernicus: Facts, Model & Heliocentric Theory | HISTORYNicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around...
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