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Nicolas Copernicus Nicolas Copernicus 1473-1543 Physics February 8, 2000 Nicolas Copernicus Nicolas Copernicus 1473-1543 Copernicus was born in Poland in 1473, he started his educational activity at Cracow University. There he studied mathematics and optics. From here he went to Italy, where he was appointed as a canon in the duomo of Frauenburg, where he spent a comfortable academic life studding. Copernicus had most small hobbies while at the cathedral, he painted, and frequently translated Greek poem into Latin. One other hobby that just wasnt small enough to be called a hobby to most of us was astronomy. He made investigations quietly and alone, without any help. He observed from a turret on a protective wall around a cathedral, he also looked with his bleak eye rather than with a telescope. He was one of the founders of modern astronomy. Copernicus died in 1543 of a cerebral hemorrhage. In 1530 right before Copernicus died he managed to produce his work, De Revolutionibus . Which said that the earth rotated on its axis once everyday and traveled around the sun once yearly. This might no well-informed very controversial but at this time the church and its following believed in the Ptolemiac theory, which stated that the universe was a closed space jump by a spherical envelope beyond which there was nothing. (Landry 1999) Copernicuss works went against the church, and most scientific beliefs. This may be one cause why Copernicus didnt publish his work until his deathbed. Another ...