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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: 96. Chapters: Johannes Kepler, John Napier, Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Gerolamo Cardano, Luca Pacioli, Lodovico Ferrari, Erasmus Reinhold, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Thomas Fincke, Francois d'Aguilon, Robert Fludd, Bernardino Baldi, Nicolaus Copernicus, Edward Wright, Robert Hues, John Dee, Francois Viete, Valentin Naboth, Thomas Harriot, Pedro Nunes, Nilakantha Somayaji, William Oughtred, Thomas Blundeville, Francesco Maurolico, Adam Ries, Jyeṣṭhadeva, Rafael Bombelli, Oronce Fine, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Petrus Apianus, Jost Burgi, Thomas Lydiat, Juan Bautista Villalpando, Ignazio Danti, Thomas Digges, Leonard Digges, Scipione del Ferro, Petrus Ryff, Christian Wurstisen, Robert Recorde, Edward Brerewood, Giambattista Benedetti, Johann Faulhaber, Michael Maestlin, Gemma Frisius, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Walter Warner, Al-Birjandi, David Gans, Guidobaldo del Monte, Herwart von Hohenburg, Marin Getaldic, Nathaniel Torporley, James Bassantin, William Bedwell, Humphrey Baker, Guobrandur orlaksson, Michael Stifel, Daniel Santbech, William Bourne, Christoph Rudolff, Estienne de La Roche, Philipp Apian, Paul Guldin, Ludolph van Ceulen, Friedrich Risner, Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedozier, Adriaan van Roomen, Henricus Grammateus, Pietro Cataldi, Christopher Wursteisen, Johannes Acronius Frisius. 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...
