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OCR: Nicol laus Copernicus (1473 1543) Copernicus was Polish astronomer who propounded the theory that the earth makes one revolution around the sun ever vear and rotates on its axis once dav This was 11 opposition Ptolemy's prevailing belief that the sun revolves around stationary earth Copernicuss theories were not accepted by most scientists of his day Galileo and the German astronomet Johannes Kepler were exceptions Nicolaus Polisl theors