SR+-+Nicolaus+Copernicus

**Nicol****aus Copernicus** By: Hailey Kemmerer, Mike McCall, & Nathan Miller



 **Biography**  **Born: February 19, 1473-in Thorn, Royal Prussia(Poland)**  **Died: May 24, 1543**  **He died on the same day that he was presented with an advanced copy of his published work.**  **Expertise: mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, artist, catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat, and economist.**  **Copernicus was a renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. This displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.**

**Key Quote:** "Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."

**Important Dates:** 1483-1485- Copernicus' father dies and his mother takes in his nephew under his protection. March 9, 1497- first known astronomer observation by Copernicus. May 1503- received his doctorate degree 1509- First work was published; written about astronomy and dedicated to his uncle. 1530- Copernicus completed his most famous work, De Revolutionibus