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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Hans Holbein the Younger, Johann Eck, Baccio D'Agnolo, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mary Boleyn, Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona, Magnus I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Thohanbwa, John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer, Melchior Hoffman, Klemens Janicki, Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, Francesco Canova da Milano, Mansur Khan, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Maria of Julich-Berg, Sultan Mahmud ibn Nizam al-Din Yahya, Maria Salviati, Nils Dacke, William Graham, 3rd Earl of Menteith, Philippe de Chabot, Susanna of Bavaria, Gian Matteo Giberti, Berthold of Chiemsee, Al-Mutawakkil III, Gyde Spandemager, Quli Qutb Mulk, Richard Gwent, Francesco Granacci, Sharif Kabungsuwan, Rowland Lee, Pierre Vidoue, Ines de Bobadilla, Robert Testwood, Girolamo Grimaldi, Jacobo de Testera, Anthony Pearson, George Cromer, Francesco Cornaro, Henry Filmer, Pier Angelo Manzolli, Josse van Clichtove, Raffaele Venusti, Jean Le Veneur, Perth Martyrs, Qadi Mir Husayn al-Maybudi, Caecilia of Paros, Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor, Sebastian Herburt, Matthaus Aurogallus, Mizuno Tadamasa, Guillaume du Bellay. Excerpt: Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Italian: Polish: in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of ...
