He had a theory that the earth revolved around the sun. Hundreds of years later, scientists proved he was right. Back then, everybody believed Aristotle and they thought the earth was at the center of the universe and everything revolved around it. Galileo kind of based his theory on that too, but it was Copernicus who thought of it.
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Copernicus' theory was that Earth is not the center of the universe and we revolve around the Sun.
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Copernicus discovered the heliocentric theory in 1510 and worked on it for four more years.
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