Body of Copernicus Identified

The body of the famous priest and astronomer, Copernicus, has been officially identified. Interestingly, the DNA used to help confirm the identification was taken from strands of hair left in a book owned by Copernicus.

Copernicus' now-famous book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres) set the world in motion with concept that the earth rotated on its own axis and circled the sun.

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