# Nicolaus Copernicus — WHE Definition Discussion
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**Created:** [October 26, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/nicolaus-copernicus-whe-definition-discussion/6744 "2020-10-26T10:05:58Z")
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### Author:  [@markzcartwright](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/markzcartwright)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/nicolaus-copernicus-whe-definition-discussion/6744/1 "2020-10-26T10:05:58Z")
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE) was a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun in a heliocentric system and not, as then widely thought, in a geocentric system where the Earth is the centre.
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### Author:  [@markzcartwright](https://community.worldhistory.org/u/markzcartwright)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2026, 3:10am UTC](https://community.worldhistory.org/t/nicolaus-copernicus-whe-definition-discussion/6744/2 "2026-07-29T03:10:21Z")