1st+Period+-+Copernicus

=1st Period - Copernicus= By:Ally M. Date of birth: February 19, 1473

Location of birth: Torum, Poland

Parents’ names: Nicolaus Copernicus Sr. and Barbara Watzenrode Copernicus

Family background: Nicolaus' father was served as a judge, a banker, and an alderman on the town council. Nicolaus' mother, Barbara was the daughter of a wealthy family, The Watzenrodes. Nicolaus was the youngest of four children, a brother Andreas, two sisters Barbara and Catherina. When Nicolaus' uncle became his guardian he was a bishop in the Roman Catholic church.

Date of death: May 24, 1543 Location of death/grave: Frombork, Poland

Education: University of Krakow- He studied liberal arts and astronomy. In the University of Bologna- He studied Canon Law. University of Padua- which he studied medicine. University of Ferrara- He studied Doctor of Canon Law. When Nicolaus was younger he had a varied education, but he learned how to read, write, sing, draw, and how to do math. He also learned later on how to use a sword, shoot arrows, and ride a horse, so when he was older he could help defend his cities.

Career: Copernicus was a polish astronomer that developed the theory that the Earth is a moving planet. He became the private physician of his uncle, and worked on his short book commentariolis. One of his jobs was being incharge of the cities chapter.

Legacy: He was famous for his cosmological explanations of real motions. He became in January of 1497 when he watched an eclipse of the moon and then he decided to write books called De Hypothesilous Motuum Colestium Commentariolus. He was famous beacuse he studied the sky and then constructed the heliocentric model and said "Not geocentric but heliocentric because evrything does not revolve around earth." Additional/Interesting information: After his father died Copernicus was sent to go live with his uncle. Copernicus died of a celebral haemorrhage. Copernicus is considered the founder of modern astronomy. He pursued astronomy on his own time making his first astronomical recordings. When Nicolaus was just ten years old his father died at the age of sixty-three, then his uncle cames to watch over all of his brothers and sisters. In 1531 he was put incharge of the chapters money a job which he took very, very seriously. He studied the sky with his bare eye outside of his cities walls.

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