(February 19) Today we’re celebrating . . . Copernicus Day
Copernicus Day
Celebrating Nicolaus Copernicus, the father of modern astronomy and the first astronomer to scientifically theorize that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe.
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February 19th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
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