Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Astronomer

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Astronomer

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Caption: Composite image featuring Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish astronomer who first claimed that the Universe was centred on the Sun and his diagram illustrating this concept, published in 1543 in the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).


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