(1473-1543) Author of On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, he is famous for proposing the truth that the Earth rotates on its axis and moves about the Sun.
Polish monk and astronomer (16th century); disproved Hellenistic belief that the earth was at the center of the universe. (p. 530)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer who developed the first modern theory of the heliocentric solar system.
Copernicus, born Joseph Smalkowski, is an avant-garde musician based out of New York. He has self-published at least eight albums of spoken-word content with music in the background. Some of his songs are improvised, while others are written beforehand.