Nicholas+Copernicus

Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) was a polish astronomer, well known for his copernican theory. His theory stated that the sun rest near the center of the universe, and the Earth, which spun daily on its axis, revolved annualy around the sun. Although the greeks, the indians, and the muslim savants had published heliocentric hypotheses centuries before Copernicus, his publication of a scientific theory of heliocentrism demonstrating that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the Universe, simulated further scientific investigations, and became a landmark in the history of modern day science known as the copernican revolution. Among great Mathematicians of the medieval times, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, scholar, translator, catholic cleric, jurist governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Amid his extensive responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation- yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world. 1209071191