Copernicus, Nicolas

The Industrial Revolution, which was natural resource- and cheap labor-dependent, was ignited in the midst of an ongoing scientific revolution, which started over two centuries earlier with Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543), Galileo Galilei (1564—1642), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and many others, all the way to Isaac Newton (1642-1727) and his great Principia published in 1687, and beyond—a revolution that continues unabated to these very days. 

Arnold, A. Zehnder, K. (1988) Decay of stone materials in salts in humid atmosphere. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Deterioration and Conservation of Stone, Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, pp. 138-1468. 

Basic research is sponsored by society, by the rich and the poor alike, for no immediate return. We should be aware of it always, we should be thankful for it, and we should respond to it as we are expected. As Nicolas Copernicus expressed it in On the Revolutions, Book One, .. . men [and women] of learning.. . applying ourselves to seeking out the truth in the things as far as that has been permitted by God to human reason. ... 

Nicolas Copernicus creation of the heUocentric system was a major event in our understanding of the Solar system structure, whose basis contains the following... 

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