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Copernicus

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Noun

1. copernicus, mikolaj kopernik, nicolaus copernicus

Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)

2. copernicus

a conspicuous crater on the Moon

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Copernicus

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noun
Nicolaus (ˌnɪkəˈleɪəs). Polish name Mikołaj Kopernik. 1473–1543, Polish astronomer, whose theory of the solar system (the Copernican system) was published in 1543
noun
a conspicuous crater on the moon, over 4000 metres deep and 90 kilometres in diameter, from which a system of rays emanates

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Copernicus

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ˌNicoˈlaus (ˌnɪkəˈleɪəs ) ; nikˌəlāˈəs) (L. form of Mikolaj Kopernik) 1473-1543; Pol. astronomer

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Copernicus

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Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, contradicting the Ptolemaic system that had dominated medieval cosmology.

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