Copernicus

It goes against the ideas of the church

Roman catholic

Because the Roman Catholic church had enormous power at the time. They had decided that the earth was the center of the universe, and that any other theory was heresy. Anyone who expressed agreement with Copernicus was liable to be arrested by the Inquisition; he would then risk imprisonment, torture and burning at the stake. Galileo Galilei, the foremost Italian physicist of the day, was arrested for just this, and forced to recant.

heilo centric theary

Copernicus never married, nor did he have children.


Didn't have one

Copernicus came up with the heliocentric theory, which is the theory that the sun is the center of the universe. It is a legend that he had a massive stroke and woke up from a loss of consciousness to see his newly published book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in his hands. He died not long after that, in May of 1543, and it was a peaceful death, for he knew that his belief had been released into the world. Copernicus did not suffer much persecution, if any, while he was alive, but his name and reputation suffered a beating after his death until it was proven right by Galileo and his new invention, the telescope. The pope did not like Copernicus' far-fetched idea, and even John Calvin and Martin Luther thought it was foolish and spoke out against it. Basically, people back then, although they loved to learn, were not very open to new ideas. Feeling pressure, the Catholic Church placed Copernicus' book on the forbidden list and banned its teachings in about 1650. The ban wasn't released until 1822! This is an example of how you can be persecuted for new ideas, no matter how accurate they are, but still, it could change history!

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By looking at the stars and planes.

Copernicus had a middle name it was johans after his great grandfather

Nicolaus Copernicus was never married.

Hell NO !

Nicolaus Copernicus is important because he found out that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Not the Sun and other planets revolving around Earth.

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Copernicus was important because he was the first one to come up with a theory of the planets that had the Sun at the centre. It was not really a discovery, more an alternative way of explaining what was already known about the planets.

The discovery had to wait until Kepler and Newton came up with better theories that explained exactly how the planets moved, in detail.

Nicolaus Copernicus was never married, nor did he have any children.

Birthplace: Torun, Poland Born: 19 February 1473 Died: 24 May 1543
Poland.

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IT was against the churches beleif that the earth was in the center

Copernicus changed the way the universe was though of when he presented the heliocentric theory. Until he came around, everyone thought the earth was the center of the universe. Copernicus presented the idea that the sun was, not the earth!!! It is a legend that he had a massive stroke and woke up from a loss of consciousness to see his newly published book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) in his hands. He died not long after that, in May of 1543, and it was a peaceful death, for he knew that his belief had been released into the world. Copernicus did not suffer much persecution, if any, while he was alive, but his name and reputation suffered a beating after his death until it was proven right by Galileo and his new invention, the telescope. The pope did not like Copernicus' far-fetched idea, and even John Calvin and Martin Luther thought it was foolish and spoke out against it. Feeling pressure, the Catholic Church placed Copernicus' book on the forbidden list and banned its teachings in about 1650. The ban wasn't released until 1822! This is an example of how you can be persecuted for new ideas, no matter how accurate they are, but still, it could change history!

no he did not, because he was a law canon. boohoo!

At about age 70, he suffered from a stroke. Later his right side got paralyzed then after a few days, he went into a coma. Died on May 24, 1543.

Nicolaus Jack Copernicus was born on Feb 19, 1473 in Thorn, Poland

he studied at college

His uncle was Lucas Watzenrode.

Nicolaus Copernicus, was born 19 February 1473 in Toruń, Royal Preussia, Poland.