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_it's still - February - 19 , here on the

Pacific West Coast of Canada - So - Happy Birthday - Nicolaus Copernicus !


Happy Birthday -- Nicolaus Copernicus: February 19, 1473


On February 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River. The father of modern astronomy, he was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

Copernicus was born into a family of well-to-do merchants, and after his father's death, his uncle--soon to be a bishop--took the boy under his wing. He was given the best education of the day and bred for a career in canon (church) law. At the University of Krakw, he studied liberal arts, including astronomy and astrology, and then, like many Poles of his social class, was sent to Italy to study medicine and law.

While studying at the University of Bologna, he lived for a time in the home of Domenico Maria de Novara, the principal astronomer at the university. Astronomy and astrology were at the time closely related and equally regarded, and Novara had the responsibility of issuing astrological prognostications for Bologna. Copernicus sometimes assisted him in his observations, and Novara exposed him to criticism of both astrology and aspects of the Ptolemaic system, which placed Earth at the center of the universe.

More on Copernicus ; __here__


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Yes, we will have to be forever thankful to him, he was the first who seriously challenged the Ptolomaeic world view at a time when it was physically dangerous to do so . Mankind then slowly entered the world of renaissance and enlightenment (Kepler, Galileo) leading to the scientific world view of today.

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Thanks for the Info Byron

forgott this Milestone

Greetings from Germany NRW
Ulli

Happy B-Day big guy!!!

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thank you very much every one :-)




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