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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1473
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, in what is now Poland. By placing the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the heavens, he began the long revolution in astronomy that remade humanity's sense of its place in the universe.
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