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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
(; ; ; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a
Renaissance
mathematician and astronomer who formulated a
model
of the universe that placed
the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe
. The publication of this model in his book
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
(
On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the
history of science
, triggering the
Copernican Revolution
and making an important contribution to the
Scientific Revolution
.
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