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    Sense I am on the side of my client, Nicolaus Copernicus, I will summarize the main reasons of why my client should not be in jail for such a ridiculous reason. My client has spent many years contemplating on what space actually looks like, and he came up with a idea. Nicolaus idea was that the sun was the center of the solar system not the earth, and that every planet orbits the sun. Your church false fully threw Nicolaus Copernicus into jail for heresy when he did nothing wrong. Why should we throw

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    people who thought differently. One of those people, was Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus came into the world on February 19th, 1473 in Torun, Poland. He was the fourth and youngest child born to Nicolaus Copernicus Sr. and Barbara Watzenrode, an affluent copper merchant family. When Copernicus was 10 years of age, his father died. His mother’s brother, Bishop of Varmia Lucas Watzenrode, took the place as a father figure. Copernicus attended the University of Cracow in 1491. He studied many

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    anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.” this quote is from Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous astronomer who discovered something remarkable. Copernicus was a part of the German heritage, but at the time, the city of Torun where he was born was a part of Poland so some believed he spoke some Polish as well. The remarkable discovery in which he found, was

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    knowledge” once said Intelligent Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus believes that true knowledge is the understanding of what we know and do not know. He impacted the history of astronomy in drastic ways. Nicolaus Copernicus, or Mikolaj Kopernik, was a german mathematician and astronomer well known for creating his own celestial model of the heliocentric solar system. His model specified that the sun, and not the earth, is closest to the centre of the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus made a great impact towards

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who believed the Sun was at the center of the universe and that the Earth revolved around it. Copernicus was born on February 19th, 1473. He was the son of Nicolaus Copernicus who was a merchant, and Barbara Watzenrode who was the daughter of a merchant family. After his father died in 1483, he was taken in by his uncle. Copernicus later enrolled in the University of Cracow and assumed an administrative position just below that of bishop. Copernicus then

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    In this essay I am researching a famous astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. I will be talking about his life, his accomplishments, and why he is famous. When I started researching his name I was a little disappointed. I went to the Biography Reference Bank first. When I searched for the name Nicolaus Copernicus not as many sources popped up compared to if I were to type in any other famous person name. When I went to Academic Search Premier there were a little more results than the other. Nevertheless

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    Nicolaus Copernicus Let's say that you worked extremely hard on a project and you did extremely well. You get that paper back and you failed! This is exactly what happened to Nicolaus Copernicus because the church rejected his ideas. Why would they do that? They did this because Nicolaus Copernicus proved everyone wrong when he discovered that actually we lived in a heliocentric universe. Nicolaus Copernicus was a very important figure in the Renaissance. He was a leading astronomer, mathematician

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    Nicolaus Copernicus How did Nicolaus Copernicus help in the scientific revolution? Well his theory of the heliocentric model of the universe was a big discovery, that had very positive consequences in the future. Until his time all scientist thought that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun revolved around the Earth. But Nicolaus was about to change that forever. Nicolaus Copernicus had a rough childhood, born on February 19, 1473. By the time he was born Torun had ceded to

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    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer. Who had discovered what most had believed in the early 1500 that the Earth was the centre of the universe but in fact the centre of the universe was rather the Sun than the Earth. And that the Moon and planets revolved around the Sun. Although his model was not entirely correct Although Nicolaus Copernicus was not entirely correct if he had not contrived the formula it would have not built a strong foundation for future scientist

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    “To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know, what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Portland. Nicolaus was born in a wealthy family so he grew up with great education. Copernicus’ father died so he was raised by his uncle who was a bishop in a Catholic church. Copernicus went to Bologna and became an assistant for Domenico Maria Novara Ferrara, a famous astronomer.(Universetoday.com) There he started to get an interest

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