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Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikolaj Kopernik ; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the cent...
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Life and works. ... Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473, the youngest of four children of Nicolaus Copernicus, Sr., a well-to-do merchant who had moved to Torun from Cracow, and Barbara Watzenrode, the daughter of a leading merchant family in Torun.
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The most important aspect of Copernicus' work is that it forever changed the place of man in the cosmos; no longer could man legitimately think his significance greater than his fellow creatures; ... Returning from his studies in Italy, Copernicus, through the influence of his uncle, was appointed as a canon in the cathedral...
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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) ... Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about ...
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Biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (BB^Y-1543) ... 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.
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Regarded as one of the central figures of the so-called Scientific Revolution, Copernicus (1473-1543) postulated a heliostatic theory in his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543). He did, however, maintain that planetary orbits were circular, and many believed that his system did not reflect the physical universe.
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Polish name: Mikolaj Kopernik. Polish astronomer and mathematician who, as a student, studied canon law, mathematics, and medicine at Cracow, Bologna, Rome, Padua, and Ferrara. ... Copernicus became interested in astronomy and published an early description of his "heliocentric" model of the solar system in Commentariolus (1512).
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