May – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in Nuremberg, offering mathematical arguments for the existence of the heliocentric universe, denying the geocentric model.
He portrayed the revolution in ideas produced by Kant as being as important in its significnace as that produced by Descartes, Lavoisier and Copernicus.
Copernican means of or pertaining to the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
Falcons are top predators in the world and "Coperis" was derived from the name of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
The work of Ali Qushji (d. 1474), who worked at Samarqand and then Istanbul, is seen as a late example of innovation in Islamic theoretical astronomy and it is believed he may have possibly had some influence on Nicolaus Copernicus due to similar arguments concerning the Earth's rotation.
He also donated four stained glass window medallions of, Marie Curie, Nicolaus Copernicus, Casimir Pulaski and, Tadeusz Kościuszko.
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The name refers to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, with the spelling according to the one preferred by the biographer Leopold Prowe.
Tired of this and other confrontations, and mindful of the fact that events of the Thirty Years’ War were moving in the direction of Silesia, Franckenberg moved to Danzig via Breslau in 1641, where he lodged until 1649 with the astronomer Johannes Hevelius, who introduced him to Copernican astronomy.
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in Nuremberg, Germany, which eventually alters the science of astronomy forever.
Gingrich, Owen: The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.
The Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station (Stacja Polarna Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika na Spitsbergenie) in north-western Spitsbergen, in the northern part of the Kaffiøyra close to Aavatsmarkbreen, has operated since 1975.
Monetae cudendae ratio, also called "Treatise on money", by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1526
Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (1400–1462), Hanseatic League tradesman in Thorn (Toruń), Prussia, grandfather of Nicolaus Copernicus
Lucas Watzenrode the Younger (1447–1512), prince-bishop of Ermland, Warmia, uncle of Nicolaus Copernicus