Birth Date:February 19, 1473 Birth Place:Torun, Poland Died:May 24, 1543 Place of Death:Frombork, Poland Education:University of Cracow Occupation:Astronomer Spouse (s):Not Known Religion:Not Known Zodiac sign:Aquarius Nicolaus Copernicusis a great polish astronomer who delivered the revolutionary ...
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...
This year sees the 550th anniversary of the birth and 480th anniversary of the death of Nicolaus Copernicus, internationally recognized as the father of modern astronomy, who "stopped the Sun, moved the Earth" and turned the view of the world upside down. However, the f...
Death In May 1543, mathematician and scholar Georg Joachim Rheticus presented Copernicus with a copy of a newly published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Suffering the aftermath of a recent stroke, Copernicus was said to have been clutching the book when he died in his bed on May 24, 1543...
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 ...
1473. He was the son of a wealthy merchant. After his father's death, he was raised by his mother's brother, a bishop in the Catholic Church. Copernicus studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Krakow. Through his uncle's influence Copernicus w Nicolaus Copernicus出生在刺,波兰...
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer who proposed that the Sun is the center of the solar system and that the planets circle the Sun. Copernicus also noted that Earth turns once daily on its own axis and that very slow long-term changes in the directio