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6 unusual facts about Nicolaus Copernicus


1543

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.

Charles de Villers

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

Copernican means of or pertaining to the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

Falcon Coperis

Falcons are top predators in the world and "Coperis" was derived from the name of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Islam in Uzbekistan

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.

Jozef Mazur

He also donated four stained glass window medallions of, Marie Curie, Nicolaus Copernicus, Casimir Pulaski and, Tadeusz Kościuszko.


1322 Coppernicus

The name refers to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, with the spelling according to the one preferred by the biographer Leopold Prowe.

Abraham von Franckenberg

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.

Annus mirabilis

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.


see also

Invisible College

Gingrich, Owen: The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.

Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station

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.

Treatise on money

Monetae cudendae ratio, also called "Treatise on money", by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1526

Watzenrode

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