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

A 500-year-old compass recently unearthed in Frombork, Poland could provide crucial insights into the scientific practices of ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near ...

Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal ...

N icolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer whose revolutionary heliocentric theory changed our understanding of the universe. At a time when the Catholic Church endorsed a geocentric model, ...

ON May 24, 1543, died Nioolaus Copernicus. A few days previously, as he lay on his deathbed, the first printed copy of his great work, “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coalestium” , which was ...

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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 ...

Cellarius’s chart illustrating Copernicus’ heliocentric model of the universe, based on Aristarchus’ theory that Seleucus accepted. Credit: Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, Wikimedia Commons, Public ...

The findings strongly suggest that Copernicus was influenced by Ibn al-Shatir, particularly in his calculations that align with the notion of Earth and other planets orbiting the Sun—a concept that ...

The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system: A simple multi-layers network model with simultaneous regime changes. ...