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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: 69. Chapters: 16th-century astronomers, 16th-century geographers, 16th-century linguists, 16th-century physicians, Leonardo da Vinci, Tycho Brahe, Giordano Bruno, Erasmus Reinhold, Aloysius Lilius, Nicolaus Copernicus, Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Valentin Naboth, Cornelius Gemma, Nilakantha Somayaji, Francesco Maurolico, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, Paul Wittich, Jye hadeva, Oronce Fine, John of G ogow, Petrus Apianus, Ignazio Danti, Niall O Glacain, Thomas Digges, Abraham Zacuto, Christoph Rothmann, Johannes Schoner, Andrew Boorde, Nicolaus Reimers, Nicholas Hill, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Walter Warner, Al-Birjandi, David Gans, Pietro Pitati, James Bassantin, Ulrich Rulein von Calw, Daniel Santbech, Sethus Calvisius, John Farmery, Thomas Cogan, Henry Atkins, Janos Zsamboky, Rui Faleiro, Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedo ier, Sebastian Krelj, George Hartgill, Heinrich Decimator, Christopher Wursteisen, Adam Bohori, Mattithiah ben Solomon Delacrut, Francesco Fontana, Carlos Logario, Am n R z . 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 celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark i...
