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Which Byzantine writerās work did Nicolaus Copernicus translate into Latin?
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus, 1580, from the Town Hall in ToruÅ, Poland; in the collection of Muzeum OkrÄgowe w Toruniu (Regional Museum in ToruÅ). In his book De revolutionibus, he proposed that the Sun was the center of the solar system and that the planets circle the Sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus translated the aphorisms of the 7th-century Byzantine historian and poet Theophylactus Simocattes into Latin. This work was published in Cracow in 1509 and dedicated to his uncle, Lucas Watzenrode.1