Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus (in Latin; Polish Mikołaj Kopernik); February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) wis a Polish astronomer, mathematician an economist that cam up wi the heliocentric (Sun-centred) theory o the solar system in a form detailed eneuch ti mak it scientifically uisefu. Copernicus wis born in 1473 in the ceity o Toruń in Poland. There's a story that the first printed copy o De revolutionibus wis pitten intil Copernicus's haunds the same day he dee'd, sae that he cuid sey guidbye ti his opus vitae. They say that he waukened frae a coma, keeked at his book, an dee'd.
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DC Goodman, CA Russell, eds. The Rise of Scientific Europe 1500-1800. Bath, UK: Hodder &
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- Nicholaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork
- Portraits of Copernicus: Portrait; Nicolaus Copernicus
- Copernicus an Astrology - A reliable wabsteid frae Cambridge University describin Copernicus' astrological wark.
- The Copernican Universe from the De Revolutionibus
- De Revolutionibus, 1543 first edition - Full digital facsimile, Lehigh University.
- De Revolutionibus, autograph manuscript - Full digital facsimile, Jagiellonian University.
- The front page of the De Revolutionibus
- The text o the De Revolutionibus
- A java applet aboot Retrograde Motion
- Copernicus in Bologna - in Italian
- "Chasing Copernicus: The Book Nobody Read". - Was One of the Greatest Scientific Works Really Ignored?. All Things Considered, NPR. March 4, 2004.
- Copernicus Foondation Chicago
- Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- Stanford Encyclopaedia o Philosophy entry