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Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Mikołaj Kopernik, (born Feb. 19, 1473, Toruń, Pol.—died May 24, 1543, Frauenburg, East Prussia), Polish astronomer. He was educated at Kraków, Bologna, and Padua, where he mastered all the knowledge of the day in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and theology. Elected a canon of the cathedral of Frauenburg in ...
Astronomy - Copernicus, Heliocentric, Revolution: Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus announced the motion of Earth in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri VI (“Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs,” 1543). (An early sketch of his heliocentric theory, the Commentariolus, had circulated in manuscript in the small astronomical community of central Europe from ...
A summary of Copernicus’s theory. 01 - The center of the Earth is not the center of the Universe, only of Earth’s gravity and of the lunar sphere. 02 - The Sun is fixed and all other spheres revolve around the Sun. (Copernicus retained the idea of spheres and of perfectly circular orbits.
1473 - 1543. Life of the Polish astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus . 19 Feb 1473. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Toruń, Poland (then Prussia) c. 1483. Nicolaus Copernicus is adopted by his uncle Lucas Watzelrode. 1503. Nicolaus Copernicus receives a doctorate in canon law from the University of Ferrara.
Nov 30, 2004 · Nicolaus Copernicus. First published Tue Nov 30, 2004; substantive revision Mon Apr 18, 2005. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it. Disturbed by the failure of Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe to follow ...
Feb 19, 2012 · Biography. Nicolaus Copernicus is the Latin version of the famous astronomer's name which he chose later in his life. The original form of his name was Mikolaj Kopernik or Nicolaus Koppernigk but we shall use Copernicus throughout this article. His father, also called Nicolaus Koppernigk, had lived in Kraków before moving to Toruń where he ...
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was one of the great polymaths of his age. He was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist, and soldier. Amid his extensive accomplishments, he treated astronomy as an avocation.
