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    When it comes to understanding how the planetary solar system works, few natural philosophers have affected us more than Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus was a scientist who was born on February 19, 1473. Around 1508, Copernicus started to develop his own idea of the solar system. His theory stated that the Sun was the center of the universe. Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that the Earth was the center of the universe rather than the Sun. Copernicus’s theory stressed the idea of

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was a renaissance mathematician and astronomer who was born on 19th of February 1473 in Torun, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland and died in 1543 on 24th of May. He was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that replaced the Earth with the Sun from the centre of the universe and was one of the first to combine mathematics with science. He was a polyglot and polymath who obtained a doctorate in canon law and also practiced as a physician

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was an intelligent astronomer who lived from the year 1473 to 1543. He originated from Poland and attended school at Cracow as well as in Italy. Copernicus was an influential thinker who was not afraid to push the boundaries when it came to astronomy. His forthright opinion changed the normal outlook of the position of the earth, sun, and planets. He will be remembered for his strong attitude and revolutionary ideas, which transformed the views of the properties of the universe

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    observations. One of the revolutionary discoveries is honored to the famed Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. He developed a heliocentric model of the universe. Prior to his time, an earth centered model, also known as the Ptolemaic model, was believed because it was simply ‘common sense’ that the earth was motionless as the sun rises and set from east to west, respectively. Unlike Nicolaus Copernicus, his predecessors believed in geocentrism; the theory which Earth is the center of the universe

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was a polish astronomer who changed how we viewed the positioning of the Sun, Earth and other celestial objects in space. He reasoned that it was the Sun at the middle of the known Universe and not the Earth, an idea that was strongly opposed at the time. He had a theory that made people see the world in a different way, he had a big impact on society. He lived his life in poland up until he we 19. He then went to school at a University called Cracow. While he studied there,

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    discoveries still had great influence in the science world and their ideas are still used in science today. But even some of the greatest minds of science have made mistakes. I am about to tell you about the contributions and accomplishments of Nicolaus Copernicus, who faced many of the same challenges that many great discoverers faced in earlier times. I am also going to tell you about some of the

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    individuals as well as “putting down” the beliefs of the Christian Church. Nicolaus Copernicus is an astronomer known for founding the study of modern astronomy. Copernicus discovered that the sun is the center of all revolutions of the planets like earth. His theory called the heliocentric or sun centered system, shows that the sun rests still while earth revolves around it. This was an important discovery because before Copernicus created the theory of the sun centered system, astronomers believed that

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    during the Renaissance era was Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus's first interest in astronomy blossomed into a life of creating astronomical theories. These theories would not only shape the world of science, but transform the Renaissance and history itself. Nicolaus Copernicus was an extremely significant figure in history because he was a scientist, he challenged the RCC, he used Classical World ideas, and he modeled the spirit of the Renaissance. Nicolaus Copernicus made many scientific advancements

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    Nicolaus Copernicus is an Agent of Change for having a wide variety of skills in order to perform his actions and become so well known. Nicolaus was an astronomer which allowed him to make remarkable discoveries of the heliocentric system, this is what led to him becoming the founder of astronomy. Nicolaus was also a leading physician with great medical expertise and was a very successful cleric, which allowed him to afford everything he had including all of his education. He was also a mathematician

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    What do Aristotle, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Powell Hubble, and Albert Einstein, all have in common? Each of these extraordinary individuals were brilliant astronomers that have given significant light on how the universe is thought of today, the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of the universe. Simply put, the theory is about the cosmological model of the universe starting with a small high density

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