Copernicus's full name is Nicolaus Copernicus. "Nicolaus" is his middle name.
The planet going around the sun was discovered by several different astronomers throughout history, but the most famous and credited discovery is that of Uranus by Sir William Herschel in 1781.
The problem was, he didn't just support Copernicus's idea, and he did not stick to teaching it as a theory, as the church allowed him to do. His problem was that he promoted it aggressively as the absolute truth, and that is what put him on a collision course with the Vatican. He was tried for heresy because he was held to be trying to reinterpret The Bible. Copernicus's theory, as promoted by Galileo, was eventually replaced by Kepler's theory, but the idea of having the Sun at the center was retained. In the 18th century the discovery of the law of gravity and the laws of motion showed that Kepler's model was very close to reality, and it's the model in use today with slight modifications from relativity.
Nicolaus Copernicus is the Polish mathematician and astronomer known for his heliocentric theory, which posited that the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. This discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the structure of the universe and marked a major advancement in the history of science.
Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler were two famous astronomers during the Renaissance period. Copernicus is known for proposing the heliocentric model of the universe, while Kepler is known for his three laws of planetary motion.
He discovered that the Earth is a moving planet
It represented a change in scientific thought
Nicolaus Copernicus lived in Poland for most of his life. He was born in Toruń and later moved to Frombork, where he spent the majority of his adult life working on his heliocentric theory of the solar system.
It represented a change in scientific thought
It represented a change in scientific thought
It represented a change in scientific thought
It represented a change in scientific thought
It represented a change in scientific thought
The theory was published in a famous book entitled (in Latin): 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium', which means, 'On the revolutions of the orbs of the heavens'.
Copernicus was worried that his mathematical model of the solar system went against christianity, as he was a devout christian. It is for this reason that he did not publish his model until he was on his deathbed, and is partially the reason for Galileo being placed under house arrest. Copernicus was so worried about this that in several parts of his paper, he reconciled his theory with the views of the church.
He was the first astromoner to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the earth from the center of the universe.
Everyone just knew that the world was flat... If that was wrong, what else could be wrong...