Nicolaus Copernicus, Renaissance-era polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe, 1473-1547. Nicolaus Copernicus Torunaeus Borusus Mathemat. Copperplate engraving by Johann Theodore de Bry from Jean-Jacques Boissard’s Bibliotheca Chalcographica, Johann Ammonius, Frankfurt, 1650.

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