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Copernicus (1473-1543)


The heliocentric system of Copernicus: the orbits of the planets are still circles.


Copernicus (1473-1543), struck by the complexity of the Ptolemy system, will build a new representation of the world in which the Sun is fixed at the center of the solar system. 

It's a revolution in thinking that will prevail after Galileo's observations.