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    Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated...
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    Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń or NCU (Polish: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, UMK) is located in Toruń, Poland. It is named after...
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    The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw is one of the Polish capital's notable landmarks. It stands before the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish...
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  • Nicolaus Copernicus Monument may refer to: Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Kraków Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Montreal Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Toruń...
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    Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center...
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    mathematically identical (but conceptually very different) to what Nicolaus Copernicus did in the 16th century. This new planetary model was published in...
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    Copernicus is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters...
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    the Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic cleric, Nicolaus Copernicus, leading to the Copernican Revolution. In the following century,...
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  • up Copernicus or Kopernik in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Renaissance polymath and astronomer. Copernicus, Kopernik...
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    is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book, first printed in...
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    during the early medieval period and the Carolingian Renaissance. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) created a heliocentric system composed of orbs carrying...
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    development of the heliocentric model in the time of Nicolaus Copernicus. Between Ptolemy and Copernicus, he is considered by many[who?] to be one of the...
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    Poland, which lasted until the country's demise in 1795. In 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born, and in 1501 Polish king John I Albert died in Toruń; his...
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    Europe in the second half of the Renaissance period, with the 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus publication De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions...
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    modern astronomy, the common universal view of the cosmos shifted as Nicolaus Copernicus positioned the Sun as the center of the Universe. Prior to the Copernican...
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    currency. The concept was thoroughly defined in Renaissance Europe by Nicolaus Copernicus and known centuries earlier in classical Antiquity, the Near East...
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    an illustration of Nicolaus Copernicus. Hartknoch wrote: About the cities and castles. The famous mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus. The book was written...
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    Copernican Revolution (category Nicolaus Copernicus)
    work over a century later. The "Copernican Revolution" is named for Nicolaus Copernicus, whose Commentariolus, written before 1514, was the first explicit...
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    concepts. A breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) when, in 1543, he gave strong arguments for the heliocentric...
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  • Lucas Watzenrode the Elder (category Nicolaus Copernicus)
    Thorn, Ermland – 1462, in Thorn) was the maternal grandfather of Nicolaus Copernicus. Lucas Watzenrode the Elder was registered in the Thorn citizen registry...
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    Vesalius François d'Aguilon Petrus Apianus Tycho Brahe Gerolamo Cardano Nicolaus Copernicus Gemma Frisius Galileo Galilei Marin Getaldić Johannes Kepler Guidobaldo...
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    Over the centuries, more precise astronomical observations led Nicolaus Copernicus to develop the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of the...
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    autograph of Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus is a manuscript of six books of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus written...
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    The Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (Polish: Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika), also CAMK or NCAC, is a Polish scientific research...
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    The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków (Polish: Pomnik Mikołaja Kopernika) is a notable landmark of Kraków, Poland. It memorializes the astronomer...
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    century. It is considered by many historians to be the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, and it houses a museum dedicated to the astronomer. The tenement...
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  • The Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station (Stacja Polarna Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika na Spitsbergenie) is a Polish research station in north-western...
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    December 2005, the airport was renamed after the famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik), who studied and received a scholarship...
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    planets around the Sun. The laws modified the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus, replacing its circular orbits and epicycles with elliptical trajectories...
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    In the early 16th century it was the residence of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who used it as a site for several of his observations. The town...
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