It is theorized that Copernicus' father passed away when Nicolaus was 10-12 years old.
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He made his own book (De Revolutions), he became an astronomer, and he died at 70 years old .
There is no evidence that he believed the heliocentric theory but his motivation in putting the theory forward was to provide a model of circles and epicycles that provided a simpler model for predicting the planets' positions than the old Ptolemaic theory. It worked quite well and was accepted by the church as a valuable teaching aid, while they retained their theological beliefs about the Earth being in fact at the centre.
The father is now 50 and the daughter is 25. Twenty years ago, the father was 30 and the daughter was 5. - M.Russell
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That depends what the age of his father is.