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Detailed explanation-1: -Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Earlier earth was considered to be at the center and all celestial bodies move around it. But later on Nicholas Copernicus proposed another model called ‘Heliocentric model’ where sun was placed at the center and all the celestial bodies including the earth revolve around it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, the heliocentric theory of the solar system.