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Biography of Copernicus
„Hence, it is proved that Copernicus was born on February 19th, 1473 in Toruń, from Niklas Copernicus, a merchant of very extensive relations, and Barbara, daughter of Lucas Watzenrode, and sister of another Lucas, a bishop in Warmia”.
– Artur Wołyński, Kopernik w Italji –
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Origin and childhood
The first mentions of members of the Copernicus family in Silesia and the Watzenrode family in Toruń date back to the 1460s. The astronomer's father, Nicolaus Copernicus, moved to Toruń around 1458, where he married Barbara Watzenrode about two years later.
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Cracow
„Here Copernicus got a taste for astronomy and from here he acquired a thorough knowledge of the contemporary mathematics and astronomy, as well as some painting skills”.
Italy
„At the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries Copernicus visited Italy twice. At the University of Bologna he studied law, and in Padua, famous for its high level of medical sciences – medicine”.
Warmia
„After returning from Italy in 1503, Nicolaus Copernicus got into the vortex of public life in Warmia. He held a number of responsible ecclesiastical and administrative positions”.
– Andrzej Woszcz
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)
"Copernicus" and "Kopernik" redirect here. For other uses, see Copernicus (disambiguation).
Nicolaus Copernicus[b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissancepolymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholiccanon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. Copernicus likely developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.[6][c][d][e]
The publication of Copernicus's 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 a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.[8]
Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a semiautonomous and multilingual region created within the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from part of the lands regained from the Teutonic Order after the Thirteen Years' War. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was a mathematician, astronomer, physician
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Nicolaus Copernicus sketch from City Hall disturb Toruń – 1580
Source: Wikimedia Commons
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