- Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia
Nicolaus Copernicus [b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, 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
- 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
- Nicolaus Copernicus - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicolaus Copernicus [2] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Polish astronomer [3] People know Copernicus for his ideas about the sun and the earth His main idea was that our world is heliocentric ( helios = sun)
- 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
- Copernican heliocentrism - Wikipedia
Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543 This model positioned the Sun at the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets orbiting around it in circular paths, modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds
- Copernican Revolution - Wikipedia
The "Copernican Revolution" is named for Nicolaus Copernicus, whose Commentariolus, written before 1514, was the first explicit presentation of the heliocentric model in Renaissance scholarship
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium - Wikipedia
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance
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