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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution.

Although Greek, Indian and Muslim savants had published heliocentric hypotheses centuries before Copernicus, his publication of a scientific theory of heliocentrism, demonstrating that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the universe, stimulated further scientific investigations and became a landmark in the history of modern science that is known as the Copernican Revolution.

Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation — yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world.
[Wikipedia entry, Nicolaus Copernicus]

For a delightful if somewhat dated read, see Thomas Kuhn's The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought.

Me? "Politics as usual" is getting very tiresome!

Read a good book.

p.s. the '1543' in Swordfish1543 references the year of Copernicus's death & the publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. For what it's worth, this is also the publication year of Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, another ground-breaking work in the history of science.