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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician, astronomer, jurist, cleric, and physician who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center. This model, detailed in his seminal work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), published in the year of his death, marked a foundational moment in what would later be termed the [Scientific Revolution](/e…