Luca and Nathan's Renaissance Assignment
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on the 19th of February, 1473 in Torun, Poland. in 1508 Circa, Copernicus developed his own model of a heliocentric planetary system. Near 1514, he had shown his findings to the public Commentariolus. He had made second book on his theory called De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. though it was banned not long after by the Roman Catholic Church. He was a Polish mathematician and astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric, or Sun-centered, system. He had been interested in astronomy whilst studying in the university of Krakow, which was famous for its history in mathematics, philosophy and astronomy. Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the earth was not the centre of the galaxy and that all planets, including the sun, revolved around Earth. He found that the sun was actually the centre of the galaxy and everything revolved around it. This meant: They now know where other planets are so they can calculate how to get to them. Without his theory we wouldn't have travelled or explored distant objects in space. We wouldn't even have sent a space station to space! We now have explored a lot more about our planets due to Nicolaus Copernicus theory. Nicolaus Copernicus had a very high role in society back then. He made research about space a lot easier to be understood for the next few future generations. Knowing that we actually were circling the sun, whilst other people thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. He had done all his research singlehandedly also! His findings had inspired other researchers and astronomers to build on his findings.
The universe will always be expanding, because of Nicolaus Copernicus' theory we are able to advance further into the future. Knowing that the Earth is actually orbiting the sun, rather than all of space orbiting Earth itself. There are still many things to be explored about space, and Copernicus has just helped mainly all researchers. These are the reasons why Nicoulaus Copernicus is the important person he was. He has cured us of the lies the church had told us, he let us go to the moon and discover to planets and the boundaries of space. I - Nathan & Luca |
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