Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe and the solar system that placed the Sun rather than our Earth at it center. The publication of the model in one of his books De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of The Celestial Sphere) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution. Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been apart of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. He was a polyglot and polymath, obtaining a doctorate in canon law and also practicing as a physician, classic scholar, translator, governor, diplomat and economist. In 1517, he derived a quantity theory of money a key concept in economics and, in 1519, formulated a version of what later became known as Greshams law. To the heliocentrism around 1514 Copernicus made available to friends his Commentariolus (Little Commentary), a forty-page manuscript describing his ideas about the heliocentric hypothesis. The heliocentric contained seven basic assumptions, therefore he continued gathering data for a more detailed work!
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