Copernicus is not part of the Greek mythology. What we found is that he knew Greek and he studied the Greek theories on the movement of the Earth through the heavens, including some writings that espoused a heliocentric view that all of the planets, including the Earth, orbited the Sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus was instrumental in establishing the concept of a heliocentric solar system, in which the sun, rather than the earth, is the center of the solar system.
Throughout human history, scientists have struggled to understand what they see in the universe. Famous astronomers — many of them great scientists who mastered many fields — explained the heavens with varying degrees of accuracy.
Here are some of the most famous scientists from the early days of astronomy through the modern era, and a summary of some of their achievements shared by Space.com.