1473 - 1543 COPERNICUS Nicolaus (19 févr. 1473 – 31 mai 1543)
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Nicolaus Copernicus*Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik);
**Middle Low German: Niklas Koppernigk, ***German: Nikolaus Kopernikus;
was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
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19 févr. 1473
31 mai 1543
~ 70 years