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In this study we compared planktonic communities of two oxbow lakes of the Vistula River.
Our present objective is to determine individual and composite factors that affect and regulate taproot development and growth, and the influence of....
Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)
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Nicolaus Copernicus[b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissancepolymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholiccanon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.[6][c][d][e]
The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.[8]
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