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Nicolaus Copernicus Facts

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who changed how we viewed the positioning of the Sun, Earth and other celestial objects in space.

He reasoned that it was the Sun at the middle of the known Universe and not the Earth, an idea that was strongly opposed at the time. Read on for interesting facts, quotes and information about the scientist Nicolaus Copernicus.

• Copernicus was born on the 19th of February, 1473 and died on the 24th of May, 1543.

• He was born in Thorn, Royal Prussia, part of the Kingdom of Poland at the time.

• The astronomical model that Copernicus developed was called heliocentrism (helios means Sun).

  It has the Sun motionless at the center of the Universe while the Earth and other planets rotate around it in circular paths.

• A much earlier geocentric model (geo means Earth) created b