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Why was Copernicus convicted of heresy?

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Why was Copernicus convicted of heresy?

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He wasn’t. Galileo was. Copernicus published the theory that the earth revolves around the sun shortly before he died in 1543, and caused no great reaction from the church at the time. It was some 70 years later that Galileo got in trouble for advocating the theory in the 1600s.