Nicolaus Copernicus

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Theophylactus of Simocatta. After that he wrote an
astronomical discourse that laid the foundation of his heliocentric theory; the
theory that the sun is the center of our solar system. However, it was 400 years
before it was published.
After leaving his uncle, he wrote a treatise on money, and began the
work for which he is most famous, On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres,
which took him almost 15 years to write. It is ironic that what he devoted a
good part of his life would not be published until he was on his deathbed.

His Theory:

To understand the contribution Copernicus made to the astrological
community, you first need to understand the theory that had been accepted at the
time of Copernicus.
The question of the arrangement of the planets arose about 4000 BC. At
this time the Mesopotamians believed that the earth was at the center of the
universe and that other heavenly bodies moved around the earth. This belief was
synonymously know as geocentric. They believed ...

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