Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543)
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Nicolaus Copernicus had a coplex personality, with afinities in different fields; he was mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist.Is the first astronomer who formulated a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
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