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Early Modern era · 1543

Copernicus: Sun at the center

Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his model of the Earth orbiting the Sun.

Copernicus’s diagram of the solar system
Copernicus’s diagram of the solar system · Mikołaj Kopernik, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1543
Where
Poland
Era
Early Modern

Before and after

Italian War of 1542–15461542 – 1546Siege of Esztergom1543Show on timeline

Sources: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, الكتاب في دورات الكواكب السماوية

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