Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a Renaissance polymath who proposed a model of the universe with the Sun, rather than Earth, at its center. His book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, published just before his death in 1543, triggered the Copernican Revolution and made a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. Copernicus was also a canon lawyer, physician, classics scholar, translator, administrator and economist, and he developed early ideas about money and prices that anticipated later economic principles.