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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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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 ...
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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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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 its axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun. This theory profoundly ... Honours awarded to Nicolaus Copernicus; (Click below for those honoured in this way)
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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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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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Of the four children the oldest and youngest, Andreas and Nicolaus, adopted the clerical career, while the older girl became a Cistercian nun and Abbess of Culm, and the younger married. The whole family belonged to the Third Order St. Dominic. ... Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > C > Nicolaus Copernicus...
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