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Copernicus studied at the University of Krakow in Poland and later continued his education at the University of Bologna in Italy.
He studied medicine, math, Economics, politics, and had a doctorate in canon law.
Nicolas Copernicus studied the sun by observing its motion and position in the sky over time. He used a technique called heliocentrism, which suggested that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the solar system. Copernicus' observations and mathematical calculations led to his development of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Nicolas Copernicus was mostly known for his astrology. He was also a mathematician, a physician, a translator, an artist, a diplomat, an economist.... But he was more well known for his astrology because he discovered heliocentrism ( theory that the sun is stationary at the centre of the earth).
Copernicus was never imprisoned.