Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician, Astronomer
1473 – 1543
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.
The publication of Copernicus' book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, just before his death in 1543, is considered a major event in the history of science. It began the Copernican Revolution and contributed importantly to the scientific revolution.
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. Copernicus had a doctorate in canon law and, though without degrees, was a physician, polyglot, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist who in 1517 set down a quantity theory of money, a principal concept in economics to the present day, and formulated a version of Gresham's law in 1519, before Gresham.
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- Born
- Feb 19, 1473
Toruń - Also known as
- Mikołaj Kopernik
- Nikolaus Kopernikus
- Nicolò Copernico
- Niclas Koppernigk
- Parents
- Siblings
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- Poles
- Germans
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Poland
- Profession
- Education
- University of Bologna
(1496 - 1500) - University of Padua
(1501 - 1503) - Doctor of Canon Law, University of Ferrara
(1503 - 1503) - Jagiellonian University
(1491 - 1495)
- University of Bologna
- Lived in
- Toruń
- Frombork
- Died
- May 24, 1543
Frombork - Resting place
- Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Andrew in Frombork
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on July 23, 2013
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