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Nicolas Cpoernicus was born in 1473 in Poland.
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Attends the University of Cracow to study astronomy and astrology.
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Attends the University of Bologna to study canon and civil law.
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Studies medicine at the University of Padua.
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Moved on to the University of Ferrara where he obtained a doctorate in Canon Law.
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The Lateran Council sought Copernicus's opinion on calendar reform.
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Copernicus concluded that Earth is a planet. He proposed a model of the solar system with the sun at the center. Copernicus used circles, which were considered to be the perfect geometric shapes, to represent the orbits of the planets.
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Georg Joachim Rheticus, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wittenberg, visited Cpoernicus. Copernicus shared his ideas with him, and Rheticus published the Narratio Prima in 1540 at Gdansk, in which he reported Copernicus' heliostatic theory in an astrological framework.
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The De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium is published. This was written by Georg Joachim Rheticus. It contained ideas of Copernicus.
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Dies in Frombork.
