Nicolaus Copernicus | |
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The "Torun portrait" (anonymous, c. 1580), kept in Toruń toun haw.[1] | |
Born | 19 Februar 1473 Toruń (Thorn), Ryal Proushie, Kinrick o Poland |
Dee'd | 24 Mey 1543 Frombork (Frauenburg), Prince-Bishopric o Warmia, Ryal Proushie, Kinrick o Poland | (aged 70)
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Kent for | Heliocentrism Copernicus' Law Copernican principle |
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Influences | Aristarchus o Samos, Martianus Capella |
Influenced | Johannes Kepler |
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Nicolaus Copernicus (in Laitin; German: Niklas Koppernigk, Pols Mikołaj Kopernik); 19 Februar, 1473 – 24 Mey, 1543) wis a Pols astronomer, mathematician an economist that cam up wi the heliocentric (Sun-centred) theory o the solar seestem in a form detailt eneuch tae mak it scienteefically uisefu.
Copernicus wis born in 1473 in the ceety o Thorn (Toruń) in Ryal Proushie. There's a story that the first pres wis pitten intil Copernicus's haunds the same day he dee'd, sae that he coud say guidbye tae his opus vitae. They say that he waukent frae a coma, keekit at his beuk, an dee'd.
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