Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543)

The Polish astronomer made one of the great theories of Western science, the heliocentrismo. This theory has already been formulated from the time of the Greeks and the Egyptians but he shall give the contemporary significance.

The theory heliocentrista Copernicus argued that the Sun was the center of the universe revolve around him and all the planets in the Solar System.

He was the author of the book entitled From revolutionibus Orbium coelestium in which collects studies done in 1507 to 1532 and all ideas concerning the theory heliocentrista.