Nicolaus Copernicus

Scientist who first asserted that the Earth revolves around the Sun, a notion that was controversial because it went against the idea that everything revolves around us. The Copernican Revolution, which he started, led to the scientific revolution.His heliocentric model of the cosmos was condemned as heretical by the Catholic Church.His theories were eventually studied further and developed by Johannes Kepler.

He looked after his sister's five children in place of the children he never had.

Born to a merchant father and his wife, he was the youngest of four children: Andreas, Barbara, and Katharina.

1497-3-9 Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation
1500-11-5 -6th Nov astronomer Copernicus observes a lunar eclipse in Rome
1501-7-27 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1514-4-26 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1616-3-5 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index
2010-5-22 Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' remains are reburied in Frombork Cathedral, Poland after a 200 year search for his tomb.,

Scientist Nicolaus Copernicus were born on Wednesday, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 49 days until Nicolaus Copernicus next birthday.

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