Polish Astronomers: Albert Brudzewski, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Hevelius, Maria Cunitz, Bohdan Paczy Ski, Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Albert Brudzewski, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Hevelius, Maria Cunitz, Bohdan Paczy ski, Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt, Jan Bro ek, Aleksander Wolszczan, Nikodem Pop awski, Jan Miko aj Smogulecki, Eugeniusz Rybka, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Marian Albertovich Kowalski, Grzegorz Pojma ski, Konrad Rudnicki, Benjamin Jekhowsky, Maciej Konacki, Jan niadecki, Andrzej Udalski, Roman Juszkiewicz, Alexius Sylvius Polonus, W adys aw Dziewulski, Mattithiah ben Solomon Delacrut, Kazimierz Kordylewski, Marcin Kubiak, Wies aw Z. Wi niewski, Adam Prazmowski, Franciszek Armi ski, Jan Gadomski, Felicjan K pi ski. Excerpt: Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Italian: Polish: in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution. Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more...