Copernicus, Nicolaus

Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543) The Polish mathematician, physician, statesman, artist, linguist, and astronomer is credited with beginning the scientific revolution. His major work, published the year of his death, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), was the first to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system. The book inspired further research by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), andjohannes Kepler (1571-1630) and stimulated the birth of modern astronomy. 

Copernicus Nicolaus (Kopernik Nikolai) (1473-1543) Pol. astron., worked out details of heliostatic theory of solar system, possibly the greatest astronomer since Ptolemy... 

Discovering what lies behind a hill or beyond a neighborhood can be as simple as taking a short walk. But curiosity and the urge to make new discoveries usually require people to undertake journeys much more adventuresome than a short walk, and scientists often study realms far removed from everyday observation—sometimes even beyond the present means of travel or vision. Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus s (1473-1543) heliocentric (Sun-centered) model of the solar system, published in 1543, ushered in the modern age of astronomy more than 400 years before the first rocket escaped Earth s gravity. Scientists today probe the tiny domain of atoms, pilot submersibles into marine trenches far beneath the waves, and analyze processes occurring deep within stars. 

Sciara glanced over at the great armillary sphere, the terrestrial globe from Gerardus Mercator, a celestial globe that is reputed to be by Nicolaus Copernicus but probably isn t, the equatorium, cross-staffs, and so on, but did not bother to go closer. Where is Filippo Nostradamus ... 

Chair of Environmental Chemistry Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland e-mail bhusz chem.umk.pl... 

FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY, NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY, 87-100 TORUN, POLAND... 

Copernicium (Cn) Named after Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who proposed the heliocentric theory of the... 

Department cf Organic Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus Academy of Medicine, Krakdw, Poland... 

C. Avendano L6pez, Departamento de Quimica Orgdnica y Farmaceutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid-3, Spain (177) Jerzy L. Mokrosz, Department of Organic Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus Academy of Medicine, 30-048 Krakdw, Poland (229)... 

His theory was discredited, however, until some 1,750 years later when Nicolaus Copernicus explained the paths of the planets in terms of a sun-centered solar system. Even then people were outraged by the contention that the earth was not the center of the universe. 

Paracelsus was born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. He was a contemporary of Martin Luther and Nicolaus Copernicus. He adopted his... 

Department of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University at Torun, Poland, Prof. A. Sokalski, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland and Prof. P.C. Mishra, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, for use l discussions and suggestions to the manuscript. 

Nicolaus Copernicus Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Isaac Newton... 

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) bom in the Kingdom of Poland formulated a model of universe that placed Sun rather than earth at the center of universe. This was against the belief of the church. Copernicus was reluctant to publish his book because of the fear of church. Finally, the book was published when Copernicus was in his death bed. Later on, Galileo further developed the model of Copernicus with his telescopic observations. 

The second edition of this book owes much to a few unusual people. 1 would like to thank first of all my friend Professor Andrzej Sadlej (1941-2010) from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Tomn, who, despite his sickness, worked to the fullest to improve the book until his last days, always smiling. 1 also would like to thank another friend of mine. Professor Leszek Z. Stolarczyk from the University of Warsaw, for everyday stimulating discussions that helped both of us to understand what we see around us. 1 am also very indebted to Professor Jacek Klinowski from the University of Cambridge (UK) and to Professor Stanislaw Kucharski from Silesian University, for their kind help when 1 was really overwhelmed. 

Nicolaus Copernicus University (Torun, Poland). The solutions already known in the literature turn out to be the special cases of this general one the already-described harmonium N = 3), Hj Hooke s molecule. and H2 Hooke s molecule. " ... 

Aleksander Jabtortski (1898-1980), Polish theoretical physicist and professor at the John Casimirus University in Vilnius, then at the Nicolaus Copernious University in Toruti. He studied photoluminescence problems. Courtesy of Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland... 

The Department of Chemistry of Warsaw University and the Polish Chemical Society established the Wtodzimierz Kotos Medal accompanying a lecture (the first lecturers were Roald Hoffmann, Richard Bader, and Paul von Ragu Schleyer). In the Ochota quarter in Warsaw, there is a Wtodzimierz Kotos Street. Lutostaw Wolniewicz (born 1930), Polish physicist and professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruh. 

Copernlcan astronomy The system of astronomy that was proposed by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, which was published in the month of his death (in 1543) and first seen by him on his deathbed. It used some elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, but rejected the notion, then current, that the earth was a staUonary body at the centre of the universe. Instead, Copernicus proposed the apparently unlikely concept that the sun was at the centre of the universe and that the earth travelled in a circular orbit about it. In addition Copernicus revived the idea that the movement of the sun and the fixed stars was due to the daily axial rotation of the earth. Galileo s attempts, some 70 years later, to convince the Catholic church that in spite of scriptural authority to the contrary, the Copemican system was correct, met with such stem resistance that De revolutionibus was placed on the church s list of forbidden books, where it remained until 1835. 

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