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Gr 3-6 This attractive picture-book biography includes many interesting facts about this fascinating 16th-century scientist. The author sketches Copernicus's childhood, his education in Poland, and his work as a clergyman and physician. However, the focus of the book is on the scholar's passion for astronomy and his rediscovery-after studying the works of the ancient Greeks-of the idea that the Earth is not the center of the universe but a planet orbiting the Sun. The ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More