Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 John Sutton

John Sutton

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'The Lost Route'

The canal in St James's Park

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 John SuttonNicolas 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