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- Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia
Nicolaus Copernicus[b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center
- Nicolaus Copernicus | Biography, Facts, Nationality, Discoveries . . .
Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes
- Nicolaus Copernicus - Astronomy, Heliocentrism, Revolution | Britannica
Nicolaus Copernicus - Astronomy, Heliocentrism, Revolution: The contested state of planetary theory in the late 15th century and Pico’s attack on astrology’s foundations together constitute the principal historical considerations in constructing the background to Copernicus’s achievement
- Nicolaus Copernicus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
At the time Copernicus’s heliocentric idea was very controversial; nevertheless, it was the start of a change in the way the world was viewed, and Copernicus came to be seen as the initiator of what is commonly known as the Scientific Revolution
- Nicolaus Copernicus - World History Encyclopedia
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE) was a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun in a heliocentric system and not, as then widely thought, in a geocentric system where the Earth is the centre
- Astronomy - Copernicus, Heliocentric, Revolution | Britannica
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)
- Copernicus: Facts, Model Heliocentric Theory | HISTORY
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around
- Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473–1543 Polish Astronomer - Encyclopedia. com
Copernicus developed a new system with the Sun at the center of the universe Though not widely accepted during his time, Copernicus's new vision of the universe laid the foundations of modern astronomy
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