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Nicolaus Copernicus was , by trade, a mathematician and astronomer. With this background, he was well suited to establish his theory of heliocentrism.
Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Torun, Royal Prussia. He was a mathematician and astronomer who studied law, medicine, and economics.
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer. His greatest contribution was to assert that the earth revolves around the sun. At the time that Copernicus lived, the general conception was that the sun revolved around earth.