Nicolas Copernicus
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Nicolas Copernicus
Born Febrary 19, 1473 in Thorun in Royal Prussia (now Toruń in Poland)
Died May 24, 1543 in Frauenberg (now Frombork in Poland)
Name in Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik. Name in German: Nikolaus Kopernikus

He was an astronomer who formulated the first modern heliocentric theory of the solar system. His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.Among the great polymaths of the Scientific Revolution, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, Catholic cleric, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist. Amid these extensive responsibilities, astronomy served as no more than an avocation. Nonetheless, his conception that the sun (rather than the Earth) at the center of the solar system is considered among the most important landmarks in the history of science.
Copernicus was buried in Frombork Cathedral. For centuries the exact site was unknown. In August 2005 his skull was rediscovered. - More information

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