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His ideas went against conventional thinking of the time, so many people would not have accepted it.

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Q: Why was Nicolas Copernicus afraid to publish his work?
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Why was Copernicus afraid to publish his findings?

Copernicus was employed by the Church and was reluctant to publish work that contradicted the scriptures. Publication of his book was delayed until the year he died, 1543.


Were did Nicolas Copernicus do his work?

in a university


Where did Nicolas Copernicus work at?

at university of krakow


Where did Nicolas Copernicus practice his work?

the playboy manchion


Where did Nicolas Copernicus do most of his work?

In the university of Krakow.


Where did Nicolas Copernicus work?

Mostly in Frombork (Frauenburg)


Who said the earth rotated around the sun?

The first to be credited with this was Nicolas Copernicus, 1473-1543. Galileo is sometimes credited with the origin of this but was actually a supporter of Copernicus' work.


In 1543 who published his views of Earth and other plants revolving around the sun?

Copernicus. He did it in a book entitled "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres." Of course, Copernicus had completed his work much earlier, but was afraid to publish it in fear of persecution from the Catholic Church. As it turns out, a Protestant religious person got a hold of the manuscript before its publication and changed parts of it without Copernicus' consent.


Did nicolaus Copernicus work with another scientist?

His most important work, On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres , was written entirely by him. He used other's astronomical observations, but wrote the book on his own.A fellow mathematician, Georg Rheticus, was very helpful in convincing Copernicus to publish his work.


What is was unable to prove his theory of planetary motion so it was not widely accepted by the scientific community Later Galileo used a telescope to prove the theory with evidence This is an?

He was too scared to publish his work because he was afraid of being caught by the Church, which strongly believed in the geocentric theory. Copernicus didn't publish his work until he was on his deathbed. Even when he did published it, it wasn't under his own name, instead under the name of 25-year-old George Rhetis.


What year did Nicolas Copernicus prove that the sun is the center of the solar system?

Nicolus Copernicus proved that sun is the center of the solar system in 1530. In that year he completed and gave the world his great work De Revolutionibus.Through this work he asserted hat the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly.


Where did Nicholas Copernicus work?

in an observatory