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History of Astronomy
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Who is considered the father of modern astronomy?
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the universe, which placed the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the universe.