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The theory of Copernicus was revolutionary because at the time, people believed the Earth was the center of the solar system instead of the Sun.
No Nicolaus Copernicus did not believe in the earth centered theory he believed that the earth and other planets center and revolve around the sun.
Contrary to most people of the 14th Century, Copernicus believed that the Earth revolved around the sun. Galileo later proved Copernicus' theory to be correct.
He believed in a heliocentric universe, or a universe where all of the planets revolve around the sun.
Nicolas Copernicus, born February 18th, 1473 in modern day Poland, was a renaissance mathematician and astronomer who believed in a heliocentric model of the Solar System. Heliocentrism is the belief that the Sun, and not the Earth is the center of the Solar System. Copernicus was also influential in the area of economics where he developed a quantitative theory of money.