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    Scientific Revolution, philosophical thinkers and scientists discovered new theories, such as gravitational physics laws and other opinions written in books. Nicolaus Copernicus’s discovery of heliocentrism transformed astronomy, his writings changed the people’s perspective of the universe further challenging the Catholic Church’s beliefs. Before Copernicus, people made scientific discoveries such as Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BCE), had already identified the sun as the central unit of the solar system

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    The texts The Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs by Nicolaus Copernicus and Two New Sciences by Galileo demonstrates a powerful illustration of heliocentric hypothesis. In each book, astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and Scientist Galileo Galilei describes their theory and assumption about the motion and shapes of the planets and objects based on their understandings and advocating earlier scientist’s thoughts. Nicolas Copernicus describes “Sun” as the center of the universe, which is spherical in shape

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    of the revolution, a scientist that goes by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus had a great

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    tradition; the difference of time period, relationship with the church, and personality affected how Galileo and Copernicus challenged tradition in this era. Born in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was a timid mathematician and astronomer connected to the Catholic Church. Copernicus provided the

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    Nicolaus Copernicus started out as just an ordinary person. In fact, according to today’s standards of intelligence, he was below average. Who knew that Copernicus would later become one of the most intelligent people in the world. Copernicus changed the way that people during the Renaissance viewed astronomy. Copernicus changed history as we know it today and if it wasn’t for him, today’s astronomers may still be theorizing about the basic facts of our solar system. Nicolaus Copernicus was born

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    Dear Pope of the Catholic Church, at this date of 3/14/17 I am attorney for Nicolaus Copernicus, My client has been charged for discovering the future, Mr. Copernicus has discovered the heliocentric theory explaining that the sun is the center of the universe and all planets orbit around in a circular motion. My client should be set to freedom in reason that he has discovered a great innovation that will only improve our future and has no possibility of harming any human being. My client is only

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    Middle Ages, people did not really focus on science. That all changed during the Renaissance. Scientist started to focus on using logic and observation rather than faith, then the Scientific Revolution started! Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and Nicolaus Copernicus were scientists during the Scientific Revolution, they did not only change science but also helped with modern science.Scientists during the Scientific Revolution changed the vision of how people look at the world, with many new advancements

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    Nicolaus Copernicus Have you ever wondered who discovered that the sun is the center of our universe? If so, the answer is Nicolai Copernicus. This man was a well-respected as well as well educated man. He explored many different subjects including mathematics, medicine, canon law, and his favorite astronomy. The Earth-centered universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy were Western thinking for almost 2000 years until the 16th century when Copernicus proposed his theory. Copernicus was born on February

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    The Scientific Revolutions and Copernicus' Book In the sixteenth and seventeenth century a Scientific Revolution swept over Europe. The start of this Scientific Revolution has been atributed to Nicolaus Copernicus and his Heliocentric Model of the Universe. Copernicus was born in Torun Poland on February 19, 1473. His parents both died when he was very young so he was sent to live with his uncle who was a high ranking official in the Church. Copernicus studied canon law, medicine, astronomy

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    Nicolaus Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus was a canon in the Renaissance period. He was born in Torun, Poland, in 1473. However, his family was German, so he was raised learning the German language. His name, Nicolaus Copernicus, is the Latinized version of his actual name, Mikolaj Kopernik. He was the youngest of four, but he has had the biggest effect on the modern world out of all of them. Nicolaus studied astrology, not to be confused with astronomy, and was greatly interested in the cosmos. As

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