Take the following as truth: In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus, born in Toruen and a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakew, published his groundbreaking and astronomy-altering treatise, De revolutionibus orbium Coeliestium, which positioned the sun and not the earth as the center of the universe.
Then the following statement: "He was subject to ridicule and persecution when he announced his theory." is true, false, or inconclusive?