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Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th Birthday Through the Eyes of a Modern Astronomer

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Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th Birthday Through the Eyes of a Modern Astronomer

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

A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) radical thought that Earth wasn't the center of the universe. Instead, he theorized Earth and other

Nicolaus Copernicus was born 540 years ago today. By Matthew Shaer / February 19, 2013. The Google homepage pays today homage to Nicolaus Copernicus, the revolutionary astronomer. Google. Enlarge

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish Renaissance man who first floated the theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “sometime

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.

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