Copernicus
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- Once there was a great astronomer named Ptolemy
- Ptolemy had this idea that the universe was geocentric, meaning the earth was at the center of the universe
- However, one night, Nicolaus Copernicus thought, "What if the Sun was at the center of the universe and not the Earth"
- Eventually, in 1543 Copernicus' major work 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium' was published describing how the universe was Heliocentric
- Later that year, Copernicus died
- However, from Copernicus' book, the world soon began to believe that the universe was heliocentric. That belief has held up throughout history and is still believed today.
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