Nicolaus Copernicus (Pólándì: [Mikołaj Kopernik] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); ; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk;[1] Ítálì: [Nicolò Copernico] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) je atorawo igba Renaissance ati eni akoko to safida cosmology alarin-orun, to mu Aye kuro ni arin agbala aye.[2]

Nicolaus Copernicus
Portrait from Toruń, 1580
Ìbí(1473-02-19)19 Oṣù Kejì 1473,
Toruń (then Thorn), Prusy Królewskie, Kingdom of Poland
Aláìsí24 May 1543(1543-05-24) (ọmọ ọdún 70),
Frombork (Frauenburg), Warmia, Kingdom of Poland
PápáMathematics, astronomy, canon law, medicine
Ibi ẹ̀kọ́Kraków University, Bologna University, University of Padua, University of Ferrara
Ó gbajúmọ̀ fúnHeliocentrism
Religious stanceRoman Catholic
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  1. Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe: Urkunden, Akten und Nachrichten: Texte und Übersetzungen, ISBN 3-05-003009-7, pp.23ff. (online); Marian Biskup: Regesta Copernicana (calendar of Copernicus' Papers), Ossolineum, 1973, p.32 (online). This spelling of the surname is rendered in many publications (Auflistung) [1]
  2. Copernicus was not, however, the first to propose some form of heliocentric system. A Greek mathematician and astronomer, Aristarchus of Samos, had already done so as early as the third century BCE. Nevertheless, there is little evidence that he ever developed his ideas beyond a very basic outline (Dreyer, 1953, pp. 135–48; Linton, 2004, p. 39).