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he went to jail because he said the earth was not the centre of the universe. However in The Bible it says that the earth IS the centre of the universe. He was thrown in jail for saying the bible was wrong.

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Nicholas Copernicus did not go to jail. He was a Polish mathematician and astronomer known for proposing the heliocentric model of the universe, where the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. His work was controversial at the time, but he was not imprisoned for his ideas.

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