s0247l-NICOLAUS COPERNICUS born 2/19/1473-5/24/1543 in Torun, Poland, astronomer,
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Formulated a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), some regard as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining point to begin the Scientific Revolution, great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist, born in a house on St. Anne's Street (now Copernicus Street), enrolled at the Kraków Academy (now Jagiellonian University),