He was an astronomer, Renaissance-era, mathematician, and Catholic canon. He developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system that the planets orbit around the Sun the Earth is a planet which besides orbiting the Sun annually also trained once-daily on its own axis as very slow changes in the direction of his access account of the Precision of the equinoxes
