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Nicolas Copernicus

By West Gartland

• He was born on February 19,1473 in Poland.

• He discovered that the earth was not in the middle of the universe the sun was.

• He published a book about solving the problem that the earth and other planets circle the sun.

• He had to use mathematics to prove that the sun was the center of the universe.

• He was a lawyer, a doctor, military strategist, and a astronomer.

• He inspired further scientific investigation called the Copernican Revolution.

• He created the Heliocentric Hypothesis.

• NASA named a satellite after him.

• He died when he was 70 years old before his book was published.