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sought to reconcile geometric descriptive models for predicting planetary motions by employing homocentric celestial spheres.
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was a Renaissance astronomer, priest and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe
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"Little Commentary",A forty-page outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe.
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It is an introduction to Copernicus's major work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.Narratio Prima is the first printed publication of Copernicus's theory
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He dies, held a copy of the finished work of On the Revolutions in his deathbed
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an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
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a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.
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replaced the Alphonsine tables which had been used for 300 years.
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was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.
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Tycho's discovery of the new star in Cassiopeia