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He had beaten Newton to the theory of gravity and Copernicus to heliocentrism.
Aryabhatt, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician, pointed out before Copernicus did that the solar system is heliocentric, not geocentric.
7. sun: earth:: Copernicus:?
Tycho Brahe, the exquisite observer, who built, calibrated, and refined instruments to see in the sky what no one else could, collected the evidence to prove a theory that Copernicus had already stated years before (in a book he dedicated to the Pope).
Copernicus's statements, showed Galileo, were not only figments of his imagination; they were an adequate description of the universe as he and Brahe had observed it.