Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi Down to Earth market in

Down to Earth market in Leather Lane

'The Thames by moonlight with Southwark Bridge'

View of the London Institution looking north

now in the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi Down to Earth market inNicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician, (c1900). Portrait of Copernicus with shooting stars. Copernicus (1473 1543) is considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology. Prior to the work of Copernicus, the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The