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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: 62. Chapters: Nicolaus Copernicus, Micha Kalecki, Mieczys aw Jagielski, Stefan Starzy ski, Henryk Grossman, W adys aw Grabski, Edward Szczepanik, Oskar R. Lange, Leszek Balcerowicz, Stanis aw Grabski, Edward Lipi ski, Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Stanis aw Swianiewicz, August Cieszkowski, Danuta Hubner, Marian Czaka ski, Jan Vincent-Rostowski, Roman Rybarski, Karol Adamiecki, Jan Pieka kiewicz, Maurycy Orzech, August Zaleski, Micha Rutkowski, Jozef Buzek, Janusz Lewandowski, W odzimierz Brus, Tadeusz Truskolaski, Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Victor Zarnowitz, Tadeusz Pyka, Jerzy Hausner, Dariusz Rosati, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Marek Borowski, Grzegorz Ko odko, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Leon Sapieha, Mieczys aw Witold Gutkowski, Stanis aw Albinowski, Louis Wolowski, Marek Rocki, Pawe Wojciechowski, Ryszard Czerniawski, Jozef Montwi, Aleksandra Natalli- wiat, Henryk Korowicz, Stanis aw Kronenberg, Jerzy Zdziechowski, Antoni Jaszczak, Wojciech Roszkowski, Teofil Adamecki, Marian Moszoro, Stanis aw Kluza, Micha Krupi ski, Stanis aw Broniewski, Andrzej S awi ski, S awomir Szwedowski, Zbigniew Zakrzewski, Joanna Mucha, Czes aw Bobrowski, Antoni abko-Potopowicz, Stanis aw Gomu ka, Maria Nowak, Piotr Wawrzyniak, Leon Wegner, Gabriel Czechowicz, Stanis aw Krusi ski, Ryszard Bugaj. 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...