Courtyard of 15th Century Jagiellonian University where the astronomer Copernicus graduated as a student, Old Town, Krakow, Poland.

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Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543), polyglot and polymath was a Renaissance mathematician, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist and of course the astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.

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Location: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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