COPERNICUS, NICHOLAS

kōpûrˈnĭkəs, Pol. Mikotaj Kopérnik, 1473–1543, Polish astronomer. After studying astronomy at the Univ. of Kraków, he spent a number of years in Italy studying various subjects, including medicine and canon law. He lectured c.1500 in Rome on mathematics and astronomy; in 1512 he settled in Frauenburg, East Prussia, where he had been nominated canon of the cathedral. There he performed his canonical duties and also practiced medicine. But the work that immortalized him is De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, in which he set forth his beliefs concerning the universe, known as the Copernican system. That treatise, which was dedicated to Pope Paul III, was probably completed by 1530 but was not published until 1543, when Copernicus was on his deathbed. Modern astronomy was built upon the foundation of the Copernican system.

See his complete works (3 vol., 1973, 1978, 1985, ed. and tr. by E. Rosen); studies by E. Rosen (1984, 1995).

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Nicholas Copernicus, 1543-1943
Book by Stephen P. Mizwa; Kosciuszko Foundation, 1943
Subjects: Copernicus, Nicolaus--1473-1543
...Kopernika The Life-Story of Nicholas Copernicus , Gniezno, 1873, pp. 356...on the writings and life of Nicholas Copernicus , Gniezno, 1873-75, 3...Materyaly Biograficzne, Czesc I Nicholas Copernicus -- Studies on the Writings...
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Three Copernican Treatises
Includes: The Commentariolus of Copernicus; The Letter against Werner; The Narratio Prima of Rheticus
Book by Edward Rosen; Columbia University Press, 1939
Subjects: Astronomy--Early Works To 1800, Werner, Johannes--1468-1528--De Motu Octavae Sphaerae
NICHOLAS COPERNICUS NICHOLAS COPERNICUS was born in 1473 at Thorn on the banks of the Vistula. His father was a prosperous merchant and municipal official in the old Hansa town. But he died when Nicholas was only ten years old; and it was the...
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Gaia's Gift: Earth, Ourselves, and God after Copernicus
Book by Anne Primavesi; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Gaia Hypothesis, Human Ecology--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Man (Christian Theology)--History Of Doctrines, Religion And Science--History
...and the death of its author, Nicholas Copernicus. He received the first printed...the break caused by the work of Copernicus lies between us and, not only...says, only since the time of Copernicus has man ceased to be the centre...
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Nicholas of Cusa and Medieval Political Thought
Book by Paul E. Sigmund; Harvard University Press, 1963
Subjects: Church And State--Catholic Church, Conciliar Theory, Nicholas--Of Cusa, Cardinal--1401-1464
...Constance, Council of, 15 - 17 , 29- 31 , 195, 275 , 304- 305 Contractio , 253- 257 , 261, 272 Copernicus, 2 , 256 Cusanus Nicholas of Cusa : historiography of, 1 -20; and Brethren of Common Life, 21 - 22 ; at Heidelberg, 22; at...
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Alpha to Omega: The Life & Times of the Greek Alphabet
Book by Alexander Humez, Nicholas Humez; David R. Godine, 1983
Subjects: Greek Language--Alphabet
...Clytemnestra, 137 Coinage, 94 -99 Computer, 36 Consonantal script, 5 Constantinople, 147 , See also Byzantium Copernicus, Nicholas, 71 -73 Corinth, 41 , 67 -68, 78 Corneille, Pierre, 155 Cornwall, 179 , 181 Cosmology, 40 -41, 46...
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus
Journal article by Michael E. Hobart; The Historian, Vol. 67, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus (Book)--Book reviews
...The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus. by Michael E. Hobart The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus. By Owen Gingerich. (New York: Walker and Company...
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Cultural Crisis Then and Now: Science, Literature, and Religion in John Banville's Doctor Copernicus and Kepler
Journal article by A. Keith Booker; Critique, Vol. 39, 1998
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...tell the story of the life of Copernicus as to explore Copernicuss "epistemological...The literariness of Doctor Copernicus is immediately evident in the...the fascination of a very young Nicholas Copernicus with the linden tree that grows...
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What Philosophy Can and Cannot Contribute to Business Ethics
Journal article by Nicholas Capaldi; Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 21, 2006
...Philosophy Can and Cannot Contribute to Business Ethics by Nicholas Capaldi This paper has two theses. The first thesis is that...Ptolemys geocentric view of the universe and its replacement by Copernicus heliocentric view of the universe. Another example would...
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The Demon-Haunted World: Folklore and Fear of Regression at the End of the Millennium
Journal article by Gregory Schrempp; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 111, 1998
Subjects: Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...youre the head of our family" see the quotation from Copernicus, above). Mr. Sun and Mr. Hemo both point to...Comte and Positivism . New York: Harper and Row. Copernicus, Nicholas. 1978 . On the Revolutions . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins...
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Ethnic Polish Students from the Former Soviet Union in the Homeland of Their Forefathers. an Empirical Study
Journal article by Janusz Mucha; East European Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Poles (European people)--Research, Poles--Research
...academic year 1999/ 2000 at Nicholas Copernicus University (NCU) in Torun...private academic institutions. Nicholas Copernicus Universitys enrollment was...academic system. On the Way to Nicholas Copernicus University According to the...
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Man's Upward Reach: Secularists Consider Religion a Barbaric Habit of the Unenlightened. Religious Faith, However, Has Been the Mainspring of Human Growth and Progress
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 20, December 27, 2004
Subjects: Human development--Forecasts and trends, Human development--Religious aspects, Human growth--Forecasts and trends, Human growth--Religious aspects, Religion--Analysis, Religion--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...revolution in cosmology--begun with Nicholas Copernicus and continued by Johannes Kepler...model of the universe. Until Copernicus, the Ptolemaic system with its...standard cosmology in Europe. Copernicus sought to simplify things by...
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The Eagle and Three Crowns
Magazine article by Richard Monte; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
Subjects: History--Exhibitions, Poland--Relations with Sweden, Sweden--Relations with Poland, Warsaw, Poland--Exhibitions
...towns were unsafe. Frombork, where the astronomer Nicholas Copernicus had lived for much of his life, was attacked by...stole its valuable treasures, and even took the Copernicus collection from the library. The exhibition concludes...
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Natural Selection vs. Intelligent Design
Magazine article by Michael Ruse; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 132, January 2004
Subjects: Darwin, Charles--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Evolution, Evolution (Biology)--Evaluation, Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects, Evolution--Evaluation, Evolution--Religious aspects, Huxley, Thomas H.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religion and science, Religion and science--Evaluation, Religion and science--Models
...place in which science was developed and cherished. Nicholas Copernicus, the father of the heliocentric theory of the universe...Galileo encountered resistance a century after Copernicus, precisely because he insisted that the sun is the...
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Mr. Smooth Comes to Washington; Vernon Jordan Is the Ultimate Washington Insider - Rich, Powerful, and Unaccountable
Magazine article by Michelle Cottle; Washington Monthly, Vol. 29, June 1997
Subjects: Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld L.L.P.--Officials and employees, Jordan, Vernon E.--Political activity, Lobbyists--Political activity
...endless circles around their steadfast home planet. This theory held sway until 1543, when Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus rocked the educated world by positing that the sun was in fact the center of the universe. Now, with the 21st...
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Is Anybody (Like Us) out There?
Magazine article by Neil de Grasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 105, September 1996
Subjects: Cosmology, Jupiter, Mars, Moons
...notion that we are not special, which is generally known as the Copernican principle. It was the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus, who, in the mid-1500s, put the Sun back in the middle of our solar system where it belongs. In spite of...
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Finding America's 'Birth Certificate'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), February 4, 2010
Subjects: Lester, Toby
...was heavily influenced by the Waldseemueller map and the author makes a convincing case for his contention that Nicholas Copernicus, upon viewing the map, was persuaded to publish On The Revolution Of Heavenly Spheres, the astronomical treatise...
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Changing Views about the Universe (Part I)
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, March 5, 2011
...system endured and remained unchallenged for more than 14 centuries up through the entire Middle Ages. In 1543, Nicholas Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, was the first ever to challenge the Ptolemaic concept of an earth-centered universe and...
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Vatican Supported Astronomy While Censuring Galileo
Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, October 25, 1999
...supported by the church because of the Bible and Aristotles cosmology. Before Galileo, the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus proposed that the sun was stationary, and in Germany Johann Kepler had argued for elliptical orbits. Mr. Heilbron...
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Don't Study Universe's Birth, Pope Once Told Savants - Hawking
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 16, 2006
Subjects: Physicists
...handed over to the Inquisition like Galileo." The church condemned Galileo in the 17th century for supporting Nicholas Copernicus discovery that Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe...
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Master Minds
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 4, 2008
Subjects: Cable television broadcasting industry, MTV Networks Inc.
...film Alien? 15.Whowas the only person to win a medal for Ireland at the Sydney Olympics in 2000? 16.What did Nicholas Copernicus argue was at the centre of our universe, and hat was the common belief before then? 17.Which three American...
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encyclopedia articles on: Copernicus Nicholas  - 2 results

 
 
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Copernicus, Nicholas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COPERNICUS, NICHOLAS kopur nik s, Pol. Mikotaj Kopernik, 1473 1543, Polish astronomer...probably completed by 1530 but was not published until 1543, when Copernicus was on his deathbed. Modern astronomy was built upon the foundation...
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Nicholas of Cusa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The son of a fisherman, Nicholas was educated at Deventer...affairs for the Holy See. Nicholas greatest achievements were...held, before the time of Copernicus and Newton, that the nearly...occurred. In mathematics Nicholas propounded significant concepts...


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