Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
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Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland, the son of a German mother and Slavic father. Like Tycho Brahe, he was raised by his uncle-the bishop of Ermeland. Copernicus was not trained as a scientist, nor was his job an officially scientific one. He studied mathematics, optics, and medicine at mostrar más the University of Krakow and canon law at the University of Bologna in Italy. Copernicus received a degree from the University of Ferrara in 1506 and returned to Poland when his uncle presented him with the canonry of the cathedral at Frauenberg, East Prussia (now part of Poland). As canon of Frauenberg, Copernicus developed a routine in which he divided his "working" day into thirds. One-third was devoted to religious duties, another third was for providing charity to the sick in need of medical attention, and the final third was devoted to his hobby---the study of astronomy and philosophical meditation. Copernicus's life was devoted to understanding planetary motion. He became famous for proposing that the sun rather than earth was the center of the solar system. A preliminary version of this theory was circulated privately in 1514. However, the first publication of this radical idea, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), was not published until 1543, the year of his death. Copernicus's theory finally was accepted nearly 100 years later, when measurements and analyses by Johannes Kepler, Brahe, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, and others permitted detailed, quantitative comparisons between predictions of the Copernican model and observation of planetary positions. he acceptance of a heliocentric solar system proposed by Copernicus represents the most fundamental change in our conception of the solar system. Because of Copernicus's leading role in this changing perspective, astronomers refer to this period as the Copernican Revolution. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Portrait by Torun, early 16th Century (Wikimedia Commons)
Obras de Nicolaus Copernicus
Opusculos Sobre El Movimiento De La Tierra / Opuscule about The movement of the earth (El Libro De Bolsillo (Lb))… (1983) 8 copias
Erster Entwurf seines Weltsystems : sowie eine Auseinandersetzung Johannes Keplers mit Aristoteles über die Bewegung… (1986) 3 copias
No Borderline 1 copia
Nikolaus Kopernikus zum 400. Todestag am 24. Mai 1943 — Honoree — 1 copia
Dzieła wszystkie 1 copia
Monetae Cudendae Ratio 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings (1989) — Contribuidor — 154 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Koperník, Mikuláš
- Otros nombres
- Koppernigk, Niclas
Коперник, Николай - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1473-02-19
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1543-05-24
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cathedral of Frauenburg (probable)
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Poland
- Lugares de residencia
- Royal Prussia, Poland (birth)
Frombork, Poland (on the shore of the Baltic Sea | death)
Torun, Poland (birth)
Krakow, Poland
Bologna, Italy - Educación
- Krakow Academy
University of Bologna
University of Padua (medicine)
University of Ferrara (canon law) - Ocupaciones
- mathematician
astronomer
cleric
canon (of Frombork) - Premios y honores
- A number of things are named for him including craters on both the moon and Mars.
- Biografía breve
- Copernicus was apparently fluent in several languages but his written communications were mostly in Latin.
He studied law and medicine at Bologna and Padua and received his doctorate of canon law in Ferrara. However, mathematics and astronomy were always a great interest to him and his achievements in the field of observational and mathematical astronomy are the accomplishments for which Copernicus is remembered today.
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La ruptura bàsica de les teories ptolemaiques que representava per a la ideologia religiosa medieval la substitució d'un cosmo clos i jererquitzat, amb l'home com a centre, per un univers homogeni i infinit, situat al Sol, féu dubtar Copèrnic de publicar-lo. El destronoament de la Terra del centre de l'Univers va causar un xoc profund. Ja no es podia considerar la Terra l'epítom de la creació perquè era un planeta més entre els alteres. I la creença de l'home, el microcosmos, com un mirall de l'Univers, el macrocosmos, ja no era vàlid. Havia començat la revolució copernicana.… (más)