Polish astronomer and mathematician

Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th century Polish astronomer and mathematician, wasn't the first to suggest that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe—the idea originated with the ancient Greeks—but he was the first to prove the ancient Greeks with a mathematical theorem.

Astronomer

Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) lived in Thorn (Toruń), then in the Kingdom of Poland, for many years.

a Polish astronomer and mathematician born in 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician born in 1473.

a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the Sun's center, contrary to the prevailing Earth-centered model

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the Sun's center, contrary to the prevailing Earth-centered model.

a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.

a Polish astronomer who developed the Copernican system, a model of the solar system in which all the planets orbit the Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer who developed the Copernican system, a model of the solar system in which all the planets orbit the Sun.

a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.

an astronomer and mathematician

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer and mathematician who was born on 19th of February on 1473.

a Polish astronomer who developed the first modern theory of the heliocentric solar system

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer who developed the first modern theory of the heliocentric solar system.

a Polish astronomer and mathematician whose theory that the Earth moved around the Sun profoundly altered later workers' view of the universe

Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician whose theory that the Earth moved around the Sun profoundly altered later workers' view of the universe, but was rejected by the Catholic church.

an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on a planet's own axis; and that very slow changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes.

a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun in a heliocentric system and not, as then widely thought, in

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543 CE) was a Polish astronomer who famously proposed that the Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun in a heliocentric system and not, as then widely thought, in...

a Polish astronomer who is commonly acknowledged as the founder of modern astronomy

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who is commonly acknowledged as the founder of modern astronomy.

a Polish astronomer whose proposal of a heliocentric model of the universe brought us out of the dark

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer whose proposal of a heliocentric model of the universe brought us out of the dark.

a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on the Earth's axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on the Earth's axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun.

a Polish astronomer who transformed Ptolemy’s theory of the universe by hypothesizing that the Earth rotated on the Earth's own axis and orbited the sun, which was at the center of the universe

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who transformed Ptolemy’s theory of the universe by hypothesizing that the Earth rotated on the Earth's own axis and orbited the sun, which was at the center of the universe.

a sixteenth-century astronomer

Nicolaus Copernicus was a sixteenth-century astronomer who dared to publish a treatise explaining that the earth revolves around the sun, which was a violation of Catholic doctrine.

a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at a heliocentric view that all of the planets, including the Earth, orbited the Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at a heliocentric view that all of the planets, including the Earth, orbited the Sun. . '

an astronomer born in 1473 who realised that the Earth orbits the Sun, an idea strongly opposed at the time

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer born in 1473 who realised that the Earth orbits the Sun, an idea strongly opposed at the time.

a Polish astronomer, who had a prestige reputation

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer, who had a prestige reputation.