Nicholas Copernicus
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Description: Short biography and sketch from PBS.
lthough trained in the law and medicine, Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) was more interested in astronomy and math. By the early 1500s, he realized that Ptolemy system for calculating the positions of the planets was much too cumbersome. He decided that the computations would be far simpler if the Sun were placed at the center of the universe instead of Earth, and he worked out the details. Although he shared his ideas with many European intellectuals, he bided his time before publishingóprobably a smart idea because he was a canon in a cathedral, where his explosive ideas would not have been popular.
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