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  2. Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, [10] [11] to German-speaking parents.

  3. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    1517: Nicolaus Copernicus develops the quantity theory of money and states the earliest known form of Gresham's law: ("Bad money drowns out good"). [121] 1543: Nicolaus Copernicus develops a heliocentric model, rejecting Aristotle's Earth-centric view, would be the first quantitative heliocentric model in history.

  4. Timeline of Polish science and technology - Wikipedia

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    Following his death, his collection of Nicolaus Copernicus' letters and documents, which he had borrowed 40 years earlier with the intent of writing a biography of Copernicus, was lost. Kazimierz Siemienowicz , Polish–Lithuanian general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, and pioneer of rocketry who developed the concept of a ...

  5. Scientific Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Copernicus, [32] Galileo, [1] [2] [3] [33] Johannes Kepler [34] and Newton [35] all traced different ancient and medieval ancestries for the heliocentric system. In the Axioms Scholium of his Principia, Newton said its axiomatic three laws of motion were already accepted by mathematicians such as Christiaan Huygens, Wallace, Wren and others.

  6. Copernican Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric model. Copernicus studied at Bologna University during 1496–1501, where he became the assistant of Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara.He is known to have studied the Epitome in Almagestum Ptolemei by Peuerbach and Regiomontanus (printed in Venice in 1496) and to have performed observations of lunar motions on 9 March 1497.

  7. Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity - Wikipedia

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    1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres. [1] 1583 – Galileo Galilei deduces the period relationship of a pendulum from observations (according to later biographer). 1586 – Simon Stevin demonstrates that two objects of different mass accelerate at the same rate when dropped. [2]

  8. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    A breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) when, in 1543, he gave strong arguments for the heliocentric model of the Solar System, ostensibly as a means to render tables charting planetary motion more accurate and to simplify their production.

  9. Timeline of cosmological theories - Wikipedia

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    1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his heliocentric universe in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. [58] 1576 – Thomas Digges modifies the Copernican system by removing its outer edge and replacing the edge with a star-filled unbounded space. [59]