a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the Sun's center, contrary to the prevailing Earth-centered model

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the Sun's center, contrary to the prevailing Earth-centered model.

an astronomer, among other things mathematician, translator, and physicist

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, and physicist among other things.

a Polish astronomer who developed the Copernican system, a model of the solar system in which all the planets orbit the Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer who developed the Copernican system, a model of the solar system in which all the planets orbit the Sun.

a Polish astronomer who developed the first modern theory of the heliocentric solar system

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer who developed the first modern theory of the heliocentric solar system.

A Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus was A Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate that the Earth was in the center of the universe.

an astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory of the solar system in Nicolaus Copernicus's epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was an astronomer who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory of the solar system in Nicolaus Copernicus's epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).

a Polish astronomer and mathematician born in 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician born in 1473.

a Renaissance astronomer and the firstperson

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the firstperson to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, whichdisplaced the Earth from the center of the unive rse.

a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on the Earth's axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on the Earth's axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun.

a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about daily motion's axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun

Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about daily motion's axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun.

a Renaissance astronomer who first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the Universe or the Solar System

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Renaissance astronomer who first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the Universe or the Solar System.

a Polish astronomer who is commonly acknowledged as the founder of modern astronomy

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who is commonly acknowledged as the founder of modern astronomy.

a Polish astronomer who transformed Ptolemy’s theory of the universe by hypothesizing that the Earth rotated on the Earth's own axis and orbited the sun, which was at the center of the universe

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who transformed Ptolemy’s theory of the universe by hypothesizing that the Earth rotated on the Earth's own axis and orbited the sun, which was at the center of the universe.

a Polish astronomer whose proposal of a heliocentric model of the universe brought us out of the dark

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer whose proposal of a heliocentric model of the universe brought us out of the dark.