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title: "Who is considered the father of modern astronomy?"  
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# Who is considered the father of modern astronomy?



## Answers

### Answer by Baishakhi Ghosh

## Overview:

[**Nicolaus Copernicus**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus) is broadly viewed as the dad of current stargazing.

This [model](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23265/musician-movie-songs-a-must-have-new-model) [put](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/87940/elon-musk-wants-to-put-people-on-mars-by-2030-really-possible) the Earth at the focal point of the universe, with any remaining heavenly bodies spinning around it. This [view](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84897/nasa-video-shows-a-giant-churning-tornado-on-the-sun-latest-view-2023) had ruled Western idea for north of a thousand years.

![Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg/800px-Nikolaus_Kopernikus.jpg)

Copernicus' momentous work, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("On the [Transformations](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/513/what-is-xslt) of the Brilliant Circles"), distributed in 1543, tested this longstanding geocentric model.

Hence, Nicolaus Copernicus is legitimately respected as [**the father of modern astronomy**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/112729/who-is-considered-the-father-of-modern-astronomy).

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