Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
	The "Torun portrait" (anonymous, c. 1580), kept in Toruń toun haw.
Born	19 Februar 1473; Toruń (Thorn), Ryal Proushie,; Kinrick o Poland
Dee'd	24 Mey 1543 (aged 70); Frombork (Frauenburg),; Prince-Bishopric o Warmia,; Ryal Proushie, Kinrick o; Poland
Alma mater	Varsity o Kraków; Varsity o Bologna; Varsity o Padua; Varsity o Ferrara;
Kent for	Heliocentrism; Copernicus' Law; Copernican principle
	Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy; Canon law; Economics; Mathematics; Medicine; Politics;
Influences	Aristarchus o Samos, Martianus Capella
Influenced	Johannes Kepler
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Nicolaus Copernicus (in Laitin; German: Niklas Koppernigk, Pols Mikołaj Kopernik); 19 Februar, 1473 – 24 Mey, 1543) wis a Pols astronomer, mathematician an economist that cam up wi the heliocentric (Sun-centred) theory o the solar seestem in a form detailt eneuch tae mak it scienteefically uisefu.

Copernicus wis born in 1473 in the ceety o Thorn (Toruń) in Ryal Proushie. There's a story that the first pres wis pitten intil Copernicus's haunds the same day he dee'd, sae that he coud say guidbye tae his opus vitae. They say that he waukent frae a coma, keekit at his beuk, an dee'd.

Reference[eedit | eedit soorce]

D.C. Goodman, C.A. Russell, eds. The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Bath, UK: Hodder & Stoughton

Fremmit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]

Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork Archived 2004-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
Portraits of Copernicus: Portrait Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine; Nicolaus Copernicus Archived 2004-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
Copernicus an Astrology Archived 2009-01-21 at the Wayback Machine - A reliable wabsteid frae Cambridge Varsity describin Copernicus' astrological wark.
The Copernican Universe frae the De Revolutionibus Archived 2002-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
De Revolutionibus, 1543 first edition - Hale deegital facsimile, Lehigh Varsity.
De Revolutionibus, autograph manuscript Archived 2005-07-28 at the Wayback Machine - Hlae deegital facsimile, Jagiellonian Varsity.
The front page o the De Revolutionibus Archived 2005-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
The text Archived 2015-03-06 at the Wayback Machine o the De Revolutionibus
A java applet aboot Retrograde Motion Archived 2009-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
Copernicus in Bologna - in Italian
"Chasing Copernicus: The Book Nobody Read". - Was One of the Greatest Scientific Works Really Ignored?. All Things Considered, NPR. March 4, 2004.
Copernicus Foondation Chicago Archived 2020-08-04 at the Wayback Machine
Nicolaus Copernicus Varsity in Toruń
Stanford Encyclopaedia o Philosophy entry

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↑ The auldest kent portrait o Copernicus is that on Strasbourg astronomical clock, made bi Tobias Stimmer c. 1571–4. Accordin tae the inscription next tae the portrait, it wis made frae a sel-portrait bi Copernicus himsel. This has led tae speculation that the Torun portrait mey be a copy based on the same sel-portrait, but its provenance is unkent. André Goddu, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition (2010), p. 436 (note 125), citing Goddu, review of: Jerzy Gassowski,Poszukiwanie grobu Mikolaja Kopernika in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 38.2 (May 2007), p. 255.

[1] The auldest kent portrait o Copernicus is that on Strasbourg astronomical clock, made bi Tobias Stimmer c. 1571–4. Accordin tae the inscription next tae the portrait, it wis made frae a sel-portrait bi Copernicus himsel. This has led tae speculation that the Torun portrait mey be a copy based on the same sel-portrait, but its provenance is unkent. André Goddu, Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition (2010), p. 436 (note 125), citing Goddu, review of: Jerzy Gassowski,Poszukiwanie grobu Mikolaja Kopernika in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 38.2 (May 2007), p. 255.

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