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NICOLAUS COPERNICUS was born, the youngest of four children, in Torun, Poland, on February 19, 1473 – 24 May 1543. He is also known as Tolosani? Nicolaus Copernicus (/koʊˈpɜːrnɪkəs, kə-/; Polish: German, was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe, in all ... The Copernican Revolution gives us an important framework for understanding the Universe. ... The Universe and everything in it can be understood and predicted using a set of basic physical laws (“rules”). The entire Universe obeys the same physical laws everywhere (and at all times). Since the Copernican revolution of the 16th century, at which time the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus proposed a Sun-centred model of the universe (see heliocentric system), enlightened thinkers have regarded Earth as a planet like the others of the solar system. Copernican revolution The dramatic change, initiated by Copernicus, that occurred when we learned that Earth is a planet orbiting the Sun rather than the center of the universe . For the longest time we thought the all the objects in the sky revolved around us, and that the earth was the center of the universe. In 1543, the year of his death, Nicolaus Copernicus started his eponymous revolution with the publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). Copernicus' model for the solar system is heliocentric, with the planets circling the sun rather than Earth. He is commonly known as the man who introduced the idea of a heliocentric universe, but is not his theory itself that was transformational. ... Copernicus' work was ultimately most significant because it changed the way people used physics and astronomy to understand the universe. In 1514, Copernicus distributed a handwritten book to his friends that set out his view of the universe. In it, he proposed that the center of the universe was not Earth, but that the sun lay near it.Mar 20, 2018. His studies caused a pivotal change in how we view ourselves just as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) and Galileo Galilei (1564 -1642) changed what we know about our earth. Copernicus formulated the scientific theory that the earth rotated on its axis and revolved around the sun....