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Born in Torun, Poland
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Copernicus's book published just before his death
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Brahe born in Scania, Denmark
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Galileo born in Italy. He would later revise Copernicus's work, making it more accessible to the public and confronting the Catholic Church.
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Born in the German state of Baden-Württemberg,
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Descartes publishes this book, separating the mind as a thinking substance from matter
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Born in Lincolnshire, England
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Newton's book establishes his laws of motion and universal gravitation, first explaining why the planets orbit
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Darwin's book was the next largest blow to the Church, and science attempted to take authority over the Bible in explaining the origin of humans ←from GreatScience
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Hubble proves that our entire galaxy is only one of many others, further diminishing the significance of our place in the universe
