Ever wonder who discovered that the Sun is in the middle of the solar System? Nicholas Copernicus was a Renaissance scientist. He discovered that the Earth was NOT in the center of the universe, but rather the sun in the middle of the solar system. During Copernicus’s life events; his important influences, discoveries, and the way we use his discoveries are extremely important to us today.
Copernicus had important life events that not only changed his life, but changed the world’s future. Copernicus attended the University of Cracow, while living with Novara. “By 1508, Copernicus had begun developing his own celestial model, a heliocentric planetary system. During the second century A.D., Ptolemy had invented a geometric planetary model, which …show more content…
Rabin once said, “The father died in 1483, and the children’s maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode (1447-1592), took them under his protection.” (Rabin, S. (2015) Nicholas Copernicus). Copernicus’s former anticipation was to be a doctor but that changed when he became interested in how the world works, and the Universe. “Copernicus's studies at Bologna provided an advantage he did not have at Cracow — a teacher of Greek. Humanism began to infiltrate the Italian universities in the fifteenth century. As Grendler (510) remarked, “By the last quarter of the century, practically all universities had one or several humanists, many of them major scholars.” Antonio Cortesi Urceo, called Codro, became professor at Bologna in 1482 and added Greek several years later. Copernicus may have studied with him, for Copernicus translated into Latin the letters of the seventh-century Byzantine author Theophylactus Simocatta (MW 27–71) from the 1499 edition of a collection of Greek letters produced by the Venetian humanist printer Aldus Manutius. Aldus had dedicated his edition to Urceo. Copernicus had his translation printed in 1509, his only publication prior to the On the Revolutions (De revolutionibus). It is important to note that Copernicus's acquisition of a good reading knowledge of Greek was critical for his studies in astronomy because major works by Greek astronomers, including Ptolemy, had not yet been translated into Latin, the language of the universities at the time”. (Rabin,S. (2015) Nicholas
Copernicus had important life events that not only changed his life, but changed the world’s future. Copernicus attended the University of Cracow, while living with Novara. “By 1508, Copernicus had begun developing his own celestial model, a heliocentric planetary system. During the second century A.D., Ptolemy had invented a geometric planetary model, which …show more content…
Rabin once said, “The father died in 1483, and the children’s maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode (1447-1592), took them under his protection.” (Rabin, S. (2015) Nicholas Copernicus). Copernicus’s former anticipation was to be a doctor but that changed when he became interested in how the world works, and the Universe. “Copernicus's studies at Bologna provided an advantage he did not have at Cracow — a teacher of Greek. Humanism began to infiltrate the Italian universities in the fifteenth century. As Grendler (510) remarked, “By the last quarter of the century, practically all universities had one or several humanists, many of them major scholars.” Antonio Cortesi Urceo, called Codro, became professor at Bologna in 1482 and added Greek several years later. Copernicus may have studied with him, for Copernicus translated into Latin the letters of the seventh-century Byzantine author Theophylactus Simocatta (MW 27–71) from the 1499 edition of a collection of Greek letters produced by the Venetian humanist printer Aldus Manutius. Aldus had dedicated his edition to Urceo. Copernicus had his translation printed in 1509, his only publication prior to the On the Revolutions (De revolutionibus). It is important to note that Copernicus's acquisition of a good reading knowledge of Greek was critical for his studies in astronomy because major works by Greek astronomers, including Ptolemy, had not yet been translated into Latin, the language of the universities at the time”. (Rabin,S. (2015) Nicholas