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Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 - 1543

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Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolaus Copernicus has received more than 10,035,067 page views. His biography is available in 168 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 162 in 2019). Nicolaus Copernicus is the 2nd most popular astronomer, the most popular biography from Poland and the most popular Polish Astronomer.

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who is most famous for proposing the heliocentric theory of the solar system, which states that the sun is at the center of the solar system and the earth and other planets orbit around it.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nicolaus Copernicus ranks 2 out of 644. Before him are Galileo Galilei. After him are Johannes Kepler, Giordano Bruno, Ptolemy, Anders Celsius, Tycho Brahe, William Herschel, Ulugh Beg, Ja'far al-Sadiq, Aristarchus of Samos, and Edwin Hubble.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus ranks 1. After him are Oruç Reis, James IV of Scotland, Thomas Wolsey, Georg von Frundsberg, John Corvinus, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Cecilia Gallerani, Hans Burgkmair, and Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales. Among people deceased in 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus ranks 1. After him are Şehzade Mehmed, Mary Boleyn, Afonso I of Kongo, Al-Mutawakkil III, Johann Eck, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, Maria Salviati, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Francesco Canova da Milano, and Polidoro da Caravaggio.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus ranks 1 out of 1,694. After him are Frédéric Chopin (1810), Marie Curie (1867), Pope John Paul II (1920), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Catherine the Great (1729), Rosa Luxemburg (1871), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Lech Wałęsa (1943), Paul von Hindenburg (1847), L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Manfred von Richthofen (1892).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Poland

Among astronomers born in Poland, Nicolaus Copernicus ranks 1. After him are Robert Luther (1822), Johannes Hevelius (1611), Albert Marth (1828), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Maria Cunitz (1610), Aleksander Wolszczan (1946), Wilhelm Gliese (1915), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Wilhelm Julius Foerster (1832), and Hugo von Seeliger (1849).

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