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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.
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The cover illustration of the second volume linked Sun Ra to a visionary heritage of space explorers including da Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Pythagoras, and Tycho Brahe.
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.