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Copernicus, who was a Polish clergyman, a Canon- ranking between Priest and Bishop a now-obsolete rank. He theorized that the earth revolved around the sun and that all the planets revolved around the earth, thus the earth was not the center of the universe. Its called the Copernican theory.

He also devised mechanical drawing instruments to trace eclipses, or is supposed to have. Nicolas Copernicus

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