Family Life Born to a merchant father and homemaker mother, he was the youngest of four children: Andreas, Barbara, and Katharina. Associated With His theories were eventually studied further and developed byJohannes Kepler. Nicolaus Copernicus Is A Member Of ...
Died: Nicolaus Copernicus died on May 24, 1543, in Frombork, Poland. It is known that during the time of death there is a newly published famous book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in his hand. Suffering a recent stroke, he went into a coma. After returning from the coma, he died ...
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 ...