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Nicolaus Copernicus [b] (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, ... Contemporary literary and artistic works inspired by Copernicus include:
Ibn al-Shatir traveled to Cairo and Alexandria to study astronomy, where he fell in, inspired him. [2] After completing his studies with Abu 'Ali al-Marrakushi, Ibn al-Shatir returned to his home in Damascus where he was then appointed muwaqqit (timekeeper) of the Umayyad Mosque. [ 2 ]
Narratio Prima. De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima, usually referred to as Narratio Prima (Latin: First Account), is an abstract of Nicolaus Copernicus' heliocentric theory, written by Georg Joachim Rheticus in 1540.
The Commentariolus (Little Commentary) is Nicolaus Copernicus's brief outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. [1] After further long development of his theory, Copernicus published the mature version in 1543 in his landmark work, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) of the Polish Renaissance.
Much of the change of attitude came from Francis Bacon [15] whose "confident and emphatic announcement" in the modern progress of science inspired the creation of scientific societies such as the Royal Society, [16] and Galileo who championed Copernicus and developed the science of motion. [17]
This inspired him to explore the dissemination and use of De revolutionibus in the several decades following its publication. Gingerich wrote about his explorations and their results, and the role of Reinhold's Prutenic Tables, in The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (2004).
In November 2022, during Falling Walls Berlin Science Week, Jan Świerkowski presented the Casino Copernicus installation, a series of arcade games inspired by the work and discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus, developed in collaboration with pixel artists Tomasz Wlaźlak.