THE results of the ‘Copernican Revolution’ have been well described by historians of science. Less has been said about the origins of this revolution; that is, the problems and facts leading ...

Speculation about extraterrestrials is not all that new. There was a vibrant debate in 17th-century Europe about the ...

It's common knowledge that Nicolaus Copernicus was a great astronomer. He developed the heliocentric theory, which brought about a revolution in the world of science. From that moment, the way people ...

In the early seventeenth century, Copernicus' concept of a heliocentric universe was further developed by the great German mathematician Johannes Kepler - the first true astrophysicist.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Origins of the Copernican Revolution ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 215 No. 4 (October 1966), p. 88 doi:10.1038 ...

Whatts uppp… I am Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish astronomer, scientist and priest, and I am the man who has put the Sun at the centre of the Universe! So I know my BIG theory is a little ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Toruń ... perfected his heliocentric theory that the sun is at the centre of the universe, not the Earth. The compass, famously pictured in a painting by Jan ...