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title: The Heliocentric Universe by Copernicus
author: www.bj.uj.edu.pl
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# The Heliocentric Universe by Copernicus
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## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/13013.jpg)
## Image Caption
A 1520-41 CE illustration of the heliocentric view of our solar system from 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium' by [Nicolaus Copernicus](https://www.worldhistory.org/Nicolaus_Copernicus/) (1473-1543 CE). [Copernicus](https://www.worldhistory.org/Nicolaus_Copernicus/) was a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun. (Jagiellonian Library, Kraków, Poland)
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