Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer born in 1473 whose De revolutionibus proposed heliocentrism, overturning fourteen centuries of Ptolemaic geocentrism and launching the revolution that led to Kepler and Newton.
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