Question

Napisz dwie rzeczy o Koperniku.

np. Lived about 500 years ago.

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Answer 1

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 Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 in Torun. In 1491 he enrolled in Cracow. He graduated in 1495. Then he continued his studies in Bologna and the University of Padua. The next stage of his education was Ferrara, where in 1503 he did a doctorate in canon law. Then he returned to Polish. He settled in Lidzbark. He worked as a doctor. Secretary also held Watzenrode L., who was bishop of Copernicus and his uncle Warminski.
Then, in 1510 was named canon of Warmia and moved to Frombork. There he led his observations. Also engaged in social and political life. In the years 1520 - 1521 he participated in the defense of Olsztyn. In addition, a keen interest in monetary reform. In his works on the subject presented a theory about money ousted worse by better.


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At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Copernicus presented the principles of the new system in the world. For the first time postulated that the Sun is the planet's orbit, in the treaty "Commentariolus". However, the exact mathematical model of the solar system presented only in the work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" in 1543.
This heliocentric theory was based on the assumption that the planets move around the sun on circular orbits. He also stated that the Earth behaves in an identical manner, should be so to the planets. In addition, Copernicus discovered that Earth does move further on its axis.
Copernicus's theory completely revolutionized the then views on the Earth and the cosmos. Its supporters were treated as enemies of the Church, and the same work for more than 200 years has been added to the list of banned books.
However, many scholars do not alienated if the situation and the discovery of Copernicus became a cornerstone of science in the Renaissance. For the strongest supporters of the Copernican theory, among others belonged Galileo and Kepler.
Under the age of 20 - the eighteenth century the discovery of Copernicus existed only in theory.Failed to confirm experimentally the Earth's motion around the sun by the fact that Bradley discovered the phenomenon. astronomical aberration.
Copernicus remains in the minds of all people first and foremost as a great astronomer. Note, however, that he was also a doctor, mathematician, economist, and even a lawyer.