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That the universe was heliocentric, not geocentric.

He disproved the fact that everything revolved around the Earth (geocentric). Instead he came up with the heliocentric theory; everything revolves around the sun.

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Copernicus promoted the heliocentric theory in his book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). His theory was wrong in that it assumed that the planets moved on the surface of spheres around the sun, but it was a major step forward and encouraged the development of modern astronomy,

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