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Nicolaus Copernicus
A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical idea that Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Instead, he theorized Earth and other
Copernicus broke open the medieval idea of an enclosed, Earth-centered universe. He set the stage for all of modern astronomy.
His concept helped shackle men's minds for more than a millennium. Then Nicolaus Copernicus, a scholarly and unassuming administrator in the Roman Catholic Church, triggered a revolution that dislodged earth—and man—from the center of the universe.
At the University of Bologna, Copernicus studied astronomy under professor Domenico Maria de Novara, during which time he helped observe the night sky. After return to his native Poland to serve as a cleric in Frauenburg, he continued his astronomical
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February, 1473 in Poland . He is best known for his treatise De revolutionibus orbium coelestiu or On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, where he argued that it was not the earth that
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