Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. The publication of Copernicus's model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution. Though a similar heliocentric model had been developed eighteen centuries earlier by Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer, Copernicus likely arrived at his model independently.
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Background
- Born in
- Toruń
- Educated at
- Jagiellonian UniversityUniversity of Bologna
- Awards
- 🏆 International Space Hall of Fame
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Leonhard von Dobschütz
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Georg Joachim Rheticus
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"We find then in this arrangement an admirable harmony of the world, and a dependable, harmonious interconnexion of the motion and the size of the paths, such as otherwise cannot be discovered. For her…"
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1473
Born
Birth1543
Died
Death
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