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Category: Heliocentrists

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  • Nicolaus Copernicus — Renaissance astronomer (1473–1543) who set the Earth in motion around the Sun — the geocentric and flat traditions' founding antagonist — and published as he died.
  • Johannes Kepler — German astronomer (1571–1630) who found the planets move in ellipses, after first building a lovelier, wrong model of nested Platonic solids; a founder of modern optics.

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