WebNicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.. His father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant. Nicolaus was the youngest of four children. His brother Andreas (Andrew) became an …

WebNicolaas Copernicus (Pools: Mikołaj Kopernik; Duits: Niklas Koppernigk, Kopernikus; Latijn: Nicolaus Copernicus; Thorn (Pools: Toruń), 19 februari 1473 – Frauenburg (Pools: Frombork) in regio Ermland (Pools: Warmia), Pruisen 24 mei 1543) was een wiskundige en astronoom die een heliocentrisch model van het universum opstelde waarbij de zon, in …

WebNicolaus Copernicus (theo tiếng Latinh; tiếng Ba Lan: Mikołaj Kopernik, tiếng Đức: Nikolaus Kopernikus, thường được phiên âm trong tiếng Việt là Cô-péc-ních theo tiếng Pháp Nicolas Copernic) (19 tháng 2, 1473 – 24 tháng 5, 1543) là một nhà thiên văn học đã nêu ra hình thức hiện đại đầu ...

WebNikolaus Kopernikus (* 19.Februar 1473 in Thorn; † 24. Mai 1543 in Frauenburg; eigentlich Niklas Koppernigk, latinisiert Nicolaus Cop[p]ernicus, polonisiert Mikołaj Kopernik) war ein Domherr des Fürstbistums Ermland in Preußen sowie Astronom und Arzt, der sich auch der Mathematik und Kartographie widmete.. In seinem Hauptwerk De revolutionibus orbium …

WebNicholas of Cusa (1401 – 11 August 1464), also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus (/ k j uː ˈ s eɪ n ə s /), was a German Catholic cardinal, philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer.One of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, he made spiritual and political contributions in European …

WebNicolaus Copernicus (Polska: Mikołaj Kopernik) född 19 februari 1473 i Thorn i Kungliga Preussen, död 24 maj 1543 i Frauenburg, var en polsk astronom, matematiker, jurist, ekonom, militärstrateg, tolk, ambassadör, läkare, astrolog och kanik.. I sitt verk Om himlakropparnas kretslopp, publicerat 1543, beskrev han hur jorden roterar kring sin axel, …

WebIn astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619, describe the orbits of planets around the Sun.The laws modified the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus, replacing its circular orbits and epicycles with elliptical trajectories, and explaining how planetary velocities vary. The three laws state that:

WebThe University of Bologna (Italian: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy.Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (studiorum), it is the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, and the first degree-awarding institution of higher learning.At its foundation, the word universitas …

WebThe universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. According to this theory, space and time emerged together 13.787 ± 0.020 billion years ago, and the universe has been …

WebAristarchus of Samos (/ ˌ æ r ə ˈ s t ɑːr k ə s /; Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, Aristarkhos ho Samios; c. 310 – c. 230 BCE) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis …