15h 54min, feb 7, 1507 y - Nicolas Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.Added to timeline:
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15h 54min, feb 7, 1507 y
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~ 519 years ago