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Author photo. Nicolaus Copernicus - Portrait from the Jan Matejko's painting - end of the 19th century.

Nicolaus Copernicus - Portrait from the Jan Matejko's painting - end of the 19th century.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)

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

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Koppernigk, Niclas
Date of birth
1473-02-19
Date of death
1543-05-24
Burial location
Cathedral of Frauenburg (probable)
Gender
male
Nationality
Poland
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Birthplace
Place of death
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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
Education
Krakow Academy
University of Bologna
University of Padua (medicine)
University of Ferrara (canon law)
Occupations
mathematician
astronomer
cleric
canon (of Frombork)
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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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