Nicolaus Copernicus
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mordinho
Why was Copernicus's work so important?
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giotto22
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Copernicus put to bed the Ptolemaic theory of astronomy, in which the planets revolve around the earth.
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tjared
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The theory of heliocentrism was instrumental in weakening the power of the Church; if the sun were really at the center of the solar system, than human beings and God's creation were not so important as they had once believed.
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