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noun - Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
noun - a conspicuous crater on the Moon
COPERNICUS - Nicolaus Copernicus (; Polish: Mikoaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Niklas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era ...
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| For the last 8 years of his life, Galileo was under house arrest for espousing this man's theory |
| This Pole's sun-centered universe theory explained why Mars appeared to move backwards across the sky |
| In his 1512 "Commentariolus" he stated the planets travel around the sun |
| In 1999 Gallup found 18% polled believed the sun revolved around the Earth, opposite to this man's 1543 theory |
| This Pole died in 1543, days after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies" |
| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Chicago's Adler Planetarium.) In celebration of his 500th birthday, a statue of this Polish astronomer was dedicated outside the Adler Planetarium in 1973 |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains an animation of Venus on a monitor.) Viewed from Earth, Venus exhibits phases like the Moon. Galileo's 1610 discovery of that fact helped confirmed the Solar System model named for this man |
| In Warsaw, you can find a prominent statue of this 16th century astronomer |
| You can see many of Poland's historic sites while following a trail named for this astronomer |
| The surname of this 16th century Polish astronomer means "one who works with copper" |
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| Nicolaus Copernicus (; Polish: Mikoaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Niklas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.The publication of Copernicus' model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economi |