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Commentariolus
Circulates a short manuscript outlining a heliocentric planetary system.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Frombork in Poland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Circulates a short manuscript outlining a heliocentric planetary system.
Presents an early account of Earth moving around the Sun.
His published model challenges the traditional geocentric arrangement.
Places Earth among the planets moving around the Sun.
His death coincides with publication of De revolutionibus.
Dies at Frombork in the same year his major work appears.
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