For 10 points, name this Polish predecessor of Galileo.
This scholar was the first person to translate historian Theophylactus Simocattes into Latin. His influences included his onetime roomate, Domenico Novara, who introduced him to a tract by Regiomontanus. After reading that book, he worked out a system that eschewed deferants, equants, and epicycles. As he died, he authorized the publication of (*) Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs, which outlined a heliocentric theory of the universe. For 10 points, name this Polish predecessor of Galileo.
This scholar was the first person to translate historian Theophylactus Simocattes into Latin.
Nicolaus {Copernicus} [or Mikolaj {Kopernik}]