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TIMELINE OF THE DISCOVERY OF 61 CYGNI

1543 THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION

opernicus published his influential argument that the Sun is at the centre of the Solar System. As evidence to support this idea mounted, astronomers hoped to clinch the argument by discovering stellar parallax. When they

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