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=Nicholas Copernicus=

Nicolas Copernicus was born February 19, 1473 and he died May 24, 1543. His father died when he was young so he was put under the protection of his uncle who was a bishop in Poland. He went Krakow University and then spent ten years in Italy studying math and law. When he returned from Italy his uncle made him a canon in the cathedral of Freudenberg it was here that he spent the rest of days studying. He was in the high circles of power but yet he remained a student; for fun he translated Greek paintings and poetry into Latin. In time astronomy became his primary obsession. He made all his observations and calculations alone. In 1530 he published his findings in the book De Revolutionibus which stated that the earth rotated on its axis and revolved and around the sun. However he was hesitant to post his findings and it ended up publishing in 1616 some time after his death.

Major Discoveries These Major Discoveries are important because they were Nicholas Copernicus main findings in his life. It said that the sun not the earth is at the center of the universe. His findings were published just before his death. I was called the heliocentric theory. His discoveries are also very important because it went against the geocentric theory. This theory said that the earth was the center of the universe. Nicholas Copernicus proved the Catholic Church wrong.
 * Heliocentric Theory-That the earth and its fellow planets revolve around the sun and that the earth rotates on its axis.
 * Copernicus said to be the founder of modern astronomy**.**
 * Orbits and celestial spheres do not have a unique center.
 * The center of the Earth is not the center of the Universe, but only the center of the mass and of lunar orbit
 * All the planets move along orbits which center is the Sun, therefore the Sun is the center of the World.
 * The daytime movement of the Sun is only apparent, and represents the effect of a rotation that the Earth makes in the 24 hours around its axis, always parallel to itself.
 * The Earth (together with its moon, and just like the other planets) moves around the Sun, so the movements that the Sun seems making (his apparent moving during daytime, and his annual moving through the Zodiac) are nothing else than effects of the Earth's real movements.
 * These movements of the Earth and of the other planets around the Sun, can explain the stations, and all the particular characteristics of the planets' movements.

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 * For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavor to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Yet I hold that completely erroneous views should be shunned. Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heaven as its center would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

e.Nicolas Copernicus 1473- 1543
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