. On this day in 1473 – February 19th – Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
His work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) set out his arguments for a heliocentric (sun-centered) system instead of a geocentric (Earth-centered) system.
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