Happy Birthday: Nicolaus Copernicus

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Wikipdeia.

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Nicolaus Copernicus (born February 19, 1473 – died May 24, 1543) was a Polish astronomer of German origin, who is 
remembered for providing the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system in De 
revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

Copernicus worked as a church canon, governor, administrator, mathematician, economist, jurist, physician and 
astrologer. Amid all his responsibilities, he treated astronomy as a hobby. However, his formulation of how the Sun 
rather than the Earth is at the center of the universe is considered one of the most important scientific hypotheses 
ever made. It came to mark the starting point of modern astronomy and, in turn, modern science, encouraging young 
astronomers, scientists and scholars to take a more skeptical attitude toward established dogma.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus

- ferg

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