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Warsaw In Your Pocket editor Alex Webber sitting on the steps of Nicholas Copernicus Monument (Pomnik Mikolaja Kopernika), the founder of modern astronomy. A sheltered academic, he made his observations a century before the invention of the telescope and without help or guidance. His book De Revolutionibus (1530) posited that the earth rotated on its axis once a day, travelled around the sun once a year, and that man's place in the cosmos was peripheral. This may seem obvious today, but it was an utterly radical idea at the time.
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Warsaw In Your Pocket - Nicholas Copernicus Monument
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