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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Noun1.Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)


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What did Nicholas Copernicus argue was at the centre of our universe, and hat was the common belief before then?
By routes still largely unknown, these models seem somehow to have made their way into the astronomical system of Nicholas Copernicus, which he claimed as his own.
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