Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE) was a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun in a heliocentric system and not, as then widely thought, in a geocentric system where the Earth is the centre.
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1453De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus is published.
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1473 - 1543Life of the Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus.
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19 Feb 1473The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Toruń, Poland (then Prussia)
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c. 1483Nicolaus Copernicus is adopted by his uncle Lucas Watzelrode.
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1503Nicolaus Copernicus receives a doctorate in canon law from the University of Ferrara.
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1506Nicolaus Copernicus works as a canon in the bishopric of Frombork.
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c. 1514The astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus first formulates his heliocentric theory of the solar system.
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1543Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric world view.
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24 May 1543The astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies in Frombork, Poland.
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1616The Catholic Church lists De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus as a forbidden book.
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1633Galileo is tried and found guilty of heresy fro his pro-Copernicus writings.
