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AncientPages.com - Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also
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A. Sutherland - Ancient Pages.com - The Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 -1543) made crucial observations in Rome in 1500. Copernicus's heliocentric worldview was revolutionary and ended the old
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AncientPages.com - On March 5, 1616, the Catholic Church banned Nicolaus Copernicus's book "On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres" (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium). Copernicus's conversation with God. Painting
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