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In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus, born in Toru´n and a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, published his groundbreaking and astronomy-altering treatise, De revolutionibus orbium Coeliestium, which positioned the sun and not the earth as the center of the universe.
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).
Aryabhatt, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician, pointed out before Copernicus did that the solar system is heliocentric, not geocentric.
He had beaten Newton to the theory of gravity and Copernicus to heliocentrism.
This might have made Copernicus unpopular, if he hadn't had the good sense to die the day his book went to press.