Exploring the grounds of the religious site, also known as the Frombork Cathedral, the archaeologists employed ...

Copernicus's model is called sun-centered or heliocentric. In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the ...

Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De ...

It was only in 1542 that Copernicus sent his now-famous treatise to Nuremberg to be published. Nearly a hundred years later, Kepler, Galileo and Isaac Newton further popularised the heliocentric ...

Copernicus basically finished “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” in 1532, but only published his heliocentric thesis on his deathbed in 1543 fearing the church’s scorn. The seed had been sown, but ...

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s ...

Copernicus basically finished “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" in 1532, but only published his heliocentric thesis on his deathbed in 1543 fearing the church’s scorn.

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system ...