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Copernicus, Nicolaus

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Cathedral of Frauenburg (probable)

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Poland

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Royal Prussia, Poland (birth)

Frombork, Poland (on the shore of the Baltic Sea ∙ death)

Torun, Poland (birth)

Krakow, Poland

Bologna, Italy

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Krakow Academy

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University of Padua (medicine)

University of Ferrara (canon law)

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A number of things are named for him including craters on both the moon and Mars.

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Copernicus was apparently fluent in several languages but his written communications were mostly in Latin.
He studied law and medicine at Bologna and Padua and received his doctorate of canon law in Ferrara. However, mathematics and astronomy were always a great interest to him and his achievements in the field of observational and mathematical astronomy are the accomplishments for which Copernicus is remembered today.

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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)

Author of On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy

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