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| Subject: Nicolaus Copernicus Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:49 pm | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Italian: Nicoḷ Copernico; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk;[1] 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.[2] Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the nyc allergiste cigarettes | |
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