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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Nicolaus Copernicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Nicolaus Copernicus (in Latin; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik;German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and economist who developed the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system in a form detailed enough to make it scientifically useful. |
| | So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. |
| | The university established in 1945 in Copernicus' home town, Toruń, is named Nicolaus Copernicus University. |
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