“Vakhtangov and the Russian Theatre”which was also premiered at the Vakhtangov Study day. Vakhtangov eventually became one of the foremost directors of the Russian theatre in the early twentieth century until his early death in 1922 at the age of 39. Talented and enigmatic, his great ...
Copernicus was the son of a merchant. After his father’s death in 1483, he was raised by his uncle, Lucas Waszenrode, bishop of the diocese of Warmia. (Warmia was an age-old Polish terri-tory, extending along the Vistula River from the city of Torun to the Baltic Sea.) Copernicus ...
Ch 5.The Fall of the Roman Empire Ch 6.The Dark Ages Ch 7.The Early Middle Ages Ch 8.The Medieval Warm Period Ch 9.The High Middle Ages Ch 10.The Late Middle Ages Ch 11.The Renaissance Ch 12.The Age of Exploration Ch 13.The Reformation ...
Born on Feb. 19, 1473, in Toruń, Poland, Mikolaj Kopernik (Copernicus is the Latinized form of his name) traveled toItalyat the age of 18 to attend college, where he was supposed to study the laws and regulations of the Catholic Church and return home to become a canon. Why was Cope...
Three years ago, archaeologists dug up a skull and partial remains of a man aged about 70, Copernicus' age when he died, near an altar at the cathedral. Forensic facial reconstruction of the skull found that it bore a striking resemblance to existing portraits of the father of modern astrono...
DEATH DATEMay 24, 1543 (age70) #31,519Most Popular Boost About Renaissance astronomer best known as the first scientist to assert that the Earth revolves around the Sun. This theory was controversial at the time but achieved enough support from contemporaries to give way to the scientific revol...
Müller von Königsberg, as he was christened); he was born on this date in 1436. A mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer of theGerman Renaissance, he and his work were instrumental in the development ofCopernican heliocentrismduring his lifetime and in the decades following his death. ...
Goethe and the commedia dell’arte as well as a scattering of Russian life from the age of Peter the Great, the 18th century, Pushkin and the Petersburg of Catherine the Great, Alexander and old Russian Estates. However, the work was by no means historical or wedded to accurately or realis...
Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Toruń in Poland. His father Nikolas, a citizen of Cracow (at that time the capital of Poland), moved there in 1460 and became a respected citizen of Toruń as well, once the war with Teutonic Knights was over. He was ten years of age when...
Born on Feb. 19, 1473, in Toruń, Poland,Mikolaj Kopernik(Copernicus is the Latinized form of his name) traveled to Italy at the age of 18 to attend college, where he was supposed to study the laws and regulations of the Catholic Church and return home to become a canon. ...