He was a mathematician. Copernicus hoped that his heliocentric or sun-centered conception would offer a simpler and more accurate explanation. Copernicus argued that there were eight spheres with the sun motionless at the center . Copernicus was conservative and did not reject Aristotle's principle of the existence of heavenly spheres moving in CIRCULAR ORBIT. Copernicus's ideas seemed to undermine the church. Protestant reformers, adhering to literal interpretation to the bible attacked the new ideas (even Martin Luther went against him). He is most famous for his book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
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