Nicolaus Copernicus (feb 19, 1473 – may 24, 1543)
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Thorn, Royal Prussia, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus was one of the first people to question the idea of a geocentric universe and invented the Copernican System, an idea of the solar system that was based on circular rotation with the sun at the center. (Wikipedia, 2023)
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feb 19, 1473
may 24, 1543
~ 70 years
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