Nicolaus Copernicus

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Nicolaus Copernicus (in Laitin; German: Niklas Koppernigk, Polish Mikołaj Kopernik); 19 Februar, 1473 – 24 Mey, 1543) wis a Polish/German 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 prentit copy o De revolutionibus 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.

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• DC Goodman, CA Russell, eds. The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Bath, UK: Hodder &

[edit] Fremmit airtins

• Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork
• Portraits of Copernicus: Portrait; Nicolaus Copernicus
• Copernicus an Astrology - A reliable wabsteid frae Cambridge Varsity describin Copernicus' astrological wark.
• The Copernican Universe frae the De Revolutionibus
• De Revolutionibus, 1543 first edition - Hale deegital facsimile, Lehigh Varsity.
• De Revolutionibus, autograph manuscript - Hlae deegital facsimile, Jagiellonian Varsity.
• The front page o the De Revolutionibus
• The text o the De Revolutionibus
• A java applet aboot Retrograde Motion
• 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
• Nicolaus Copernicus Varsity in Toruń
• Stanford Encyclopaedia o Philosophy entry

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