Nicholas+Copernicus+P1

=__Nicolaus Copernicus__=

=__ABOUT ME__=
 * **I was born Feb. 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland**
 * **My Polish name is Mikolaj Kopernik but in English you can call me Nicolaus Copernicus.**
 * **Around 1497 I began observations of the Sun, Moon, and planets.**
 * **I was more interested in astronomy and math.**
 * **While in Poland I was from a middle class family and I was the youngest of four kids.**
 * **I proposed the theory of the heliocentric (sun-centered) model for the solar system, which means all the other planets orbit the Sun, and not the Earth.**

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=My Education= = = ==
 * **I Studied in Italy**
 * **I also studied mathematics at Kraków Academy (now Jagiellonian University)from 1491 to 1494.**
 * **During 1496 I went to study astronomy and law at the University of Bologna which is in Italy.**
 * **In May 1503 I finally received a doctorate--like my uncle, in canon law**
 * **In 1539 I took on Rheticus** **as a student and handed over my manuscript to h write a popularization of the heliocentric theory, published as Narratio Prima in 1540.**

=__Qoutes__=
 * “Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, 'with both eyes open.”

"For relaxaion, I painted and translated Greek poetry into Latin."** = =

=**__MY FAMLY__**=

==**I lived in my uncle's bishopric palace in Lidzbark Warminski, assisting in the administration of the diocese and in the conflict against the Teutonic Knights.There I published my first book, a Latin translation of letters on morals by a 7th-century Byzantine writer, Theophylactus of Simocatta.**==

==**MY MOM:Copernicus was rediscovered many times. When I was still a schoolgirl, the 500-hundred-year anniversary of his birth was celebrated (1973). Copernicus was for his all life a faithful subject of the Polish king and a bitter enemy of the Teutonic Order, although he inherited German blood, especially from his my side. Copernicus used only Latin in writing his scientific works since Latin was the language of science and of communication with the world community of scholars.**==

=__summary__= ===Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about its axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun. This theory profoundly altered later workers' view of the universe, but was rejected by the Catholic church.=== = =

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