Nicolaus Copernicus (Pólándì: [Mikołaj Kopernik] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); Jẹ́mánì: [Nikolaus Kopernikus] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; Ítálì: [Nicolò Copernico] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) je atorawo igba Renaissance ati eni akoko to safida cosmology alarin-orun, to mu Aye kuro ni arin agbala aye. Nicolaus Copernicus Gesamtausgabe: Urkunden, Akten und Nachrichten: Texte und Übersetzungen, ISBN 3-05-003009-7, pp.23ff. (online); Marian Biskup: Regesta Copernicana (calendar of Copernicus' Papers), Ossolineum, 1973, p.32 (online). This spelling of the surname is rendered in many publications (Auflistung) [1] Copernicus was not, however, the first to propose some form of heliocentric system. A Greek mathematician and astronomer, Aristarchus of Samos, had already done so as early as the third century BCE.