Nicolaus Copernicus

Created theory that the sun was center of the universe instead of the earth. Also, he formulated Gresham's law.

Copernicus was a renaissance mathematician and astronomer.

Who was he?

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Copernicus created the heliocentric model.

Heliocentric or Geocentric?

Nicolaus Copernicus

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Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń He went to college and obtained a doctorate in canon law and also practiced as a physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist