Nicolaus Copernicus

'Earth moving, Sun stopping' Astronomer

Nicolaus Copernicus, or Mikołaj Kopernik (in Polish) - born on February 19, 1473 in Toruń, Poland. 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.

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