Who is nicolaus Copernicus?

Answer 1

Nicolaus Copernicus

Born in the Kingdom of Poland on February 19, 1473 and died on May 24, 1543.

He was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. He wrote De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)

Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist.

Answer 2

· Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland on the 19th of February 1473

· Nicolaus died on the 4 May 1543 at the age of 70

· Nicolaus full name is Nicolaus Copernicus but his original name was Mikolaj Kopernik

· Nicolaus's dad Niklas Koppernigk (aka Nicolaus Copernicus Sr.) was a wholesale trader and was a native Krakow.

· Barbara Watzelrode Nicolaus's mother is from a high mercantile family.

· Nicolaus had one brother and two sisters

- Andreas

- Barbara

- Katharina

· At the age of ten Nicolaus lost his father and was adopted by his uncle, Lucas Watzenrode

· Nicolaus didn't have a wife or any children because· Nicolaus when to:

- University of Krakow to study math, painting and medicine

- University of Bologna so that he could study Greek, mathematics and astronomy

- University of Padua to study more medicine

- University of Ferrara and studied canon law of the Roman Catholic Church.

- In 1491 at the University of Krakow, Nicolaus began his he studies by studding math, painting and medicine. Later on in his live when working at a church Nicolaus became interested in astronomy. In 1513 Nicolaus opened his own observatory so that he could study the planets and stars by himself.

- In 1543 just before he died Nicolaus proved that the sun was in the middle on the universe this is exactly what the picture underneath is showing. The Catholic Church ignored Nicolaus discovery for nearly 3 centuries and after Nicolaus died the Catholic Church banned everyone from reading the information he found out about the universe. Nicolaus also proved that the sun, the moon and the earth were round.

Answer 3

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the universe, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system with the planets, including Earth, revolving around it. His theory revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos and laid the foundation for modern astronomy.

Answer 4

nicolaus copernicius was an astronomer he discovered that the earth wasn't in the centre of the universe but rather the sun was

Answer 5

He was the first to challenge the beleif that the planet orbits around the sun

Answer 6

his working partner was domenico maria de novara. She was his mathematician partner.

Answer 7

Nicolaus Jack Copernicus

Answer 8

He had a broken nose.