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This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus orbium ...

Google celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday, a Renaissance scholar and astronomer, with an animated heliocentric model doodle. Copernicus in his seminal work De revolutionibus orbium ...