Roughly a century before Copernicus, Christian scholar Nicholas of Cusa also proposed that the Earth rotates on its axis in his book, On Learned Ignorance ( 1440 ).

He was notable as a Platonist astronomer, and in 1496 he taught Nicholas Copernicus astronomy.

* Leonik Tomeu, professor of Nicholas Copernicus at the University of Padova

Miroslawa Buchholtz, Nicholas Copernicus UP, Cracow 2004

During the High Renaissance period, Christopher Columbus traveled to what later become known as America ( though he was, in fact, searching for a faster trade route to India ) and Nicholas Copernicus discovered that Earth exists in a heliocentric solar system, contrary to the geocentric belief of centuries prior that held that the Earth is central and stationary, with all heavenly bodies orbiting it, even though this had been known ever since the antiquity.

Department of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University of Toruń.

( Additional information: Nicholas Copernicus mentions ' prosthaphaeresis ' several times in his work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, published in 1543, meaning the " great parallax " caused by the displacement of the observer due to the Earth's annual motion.

The drive itself is lined with a number of grand bronze monuments commemorating Kościuszko, Havliček and Nicholas Copernicus, the last of which is a replica of a famous 19th-century work in Warsaw by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

The monument is a large outdoor concrete sculpture on the front lawn that pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time: Hipparchus ( about 150 BC ); Nicholas Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ); Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ); Johannes Kepler ( 1571 – 1630 ); Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ); and William Herschel ( 1738 – 1822 ).

The last Lord of Abensberg, Nicholas, supposedly named after his godfather, Nicholas of Kues, a Catholic cardinal, was murdered in 1485 by Christopher, a Duke of Bavaria-Munich.

" On his arrival in Rome, however, charges of simony, or the buying of ecclesiastical office, and lack of learning were brought against him, and his elevation to York was refused by Pope Nicholas II, who also deposed him from Worcester.

The story of Ealdred being deposed comes from the Vita Edwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor, but the Vita Wulfstani, an account of the life of Ealdred's successor at Worcester, Wulfstan, says that Nicholas refused the pallium until a promise to find a replacement for Worcester was given by Ealdred.

This approval of slavery was reaffirmed and extended in the Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455 ( also by Nicholas V ).

In the course of the 19th century similar groups were founded in a number of countries, including the " Oblates of St Charles ", established in London by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.

He died of lung cancer in London on 1 January 1984 and was survived by a daughter, musician Sappho Gillett Korner, and two sons, guitarist Nicholas ( Nico ) Korner and sound engineer Damian Korner.

Painting of Saint Anthony, a part of The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot by Piero di Cosimo, ca.

The charter had more than sixty signatories, including the brothers John, Nicholas and Moses of the Brown family, who would later inspire the College's modern name following a gift bestowed by Nicholas Brown, Jr.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, being well informed, tried to stop the upcoming conflict on 8 June, by sending an identical personal message to the Kings of Bulgaria and Serbia, offering to act as arbitrator according to the provisions of the 1912 Serbo-Bulgarian treaty.

The Christmas ceremony dates to a period prior to the American Revolutionary War, but lapsed before being revived by University President Nicholas Murray Butler in the early 20th century.

The Christmas ceremony is accompanied by a reading of A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore and Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus by Francis Pharcellus Church.

Complied by Nicholas Palmer, revised by Tony Honoré for Oxford Text Archive, 1984.

This had been decreed by Pope Nicholas II in 1059.

* Cyberculture, The key Concepts, edited by David Bell, Brian D. Loader, Nicholas Pleace and Douglas Schuler

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

He was content to live the quiet life of a country vicar in Dymchurch-under-the-Wall under the patronage of Sir Charles Cobtree, the father of his best friend Anthony Cobtree, until his beautiful young Spanish wife Imogene was seduced by and eloped with Nicholas Tappitt, whom Dr. Syn had considered a close friend.

A bronze statue to mark the centenary of Thomas ' birth, by Welsh sculptor Peter Nicholas, is planned for 2014.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

Copernicus, to an extent unachieved by Ptolemy, approximated to Euclid's vision.

That such deficiencies existed within Ptolemy's theory was not discovered de novo by Copernicus.

Copernicus himself was mainly motivated by technical dissatisfaction with the earlier system and not by support for any mediocrity principle.

A great breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), who proposed in 1543 the heliocentric model of the solar system.

Galileo, however, felt that the descriptive content of the technical disciplines warranted philosophical interest, particularly because mathematical analysis of astronomical observations — notably the radical analysis offered by astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus concerning the relative motions of the Sun, Earth, Moon, and planets — indicated that philosophers ' statements about the nature of the universe could be shown to be in error.

Furthermore, Copernicus continued to use as a point of reference the center of the earth's orbit rather than that of the sun, as he says, " as an aid to calculation and in order not to confuse the reader by diverging too much from Ptolemy.

However, his mockery of the idea of a round earth was criticised by Copernicus as " childish ".

In the Galileo affair, the acceptance, from 1616 to 1757, of the Greek geocentric model ( Ptolemaic system ) by the Roman Catholic Church, and its consequent opposition to heliocentrism, was first called into question by the Catholic cleric Copernicus, and subsequently disproved conclusively by Galileo, who was persecuted for his minority view.

The idea that the earth moved around the sun, as advocated by Copernicus, was to most of his contemporaries doubtful.

The two largest of these hospitals, recently run by the voivodeship, are to be taken over by Nicolaus Copernicus University and run as its clinical units.

Alternatively, he may have proved the heliocentric theory by determining the constants of a geometric model for the heliocentric theory and by developing methods to compute planetary positions using this model, like what Nicolaus Copernicus later did in the 16th century.

As noted by Copernicus himself, the suggestion that the Earth rotates was very old, dating at least to Philolaus ( c. 450 BC ), Heraclides Ponticus ( c. 350 BC ) and Ecphantus the Pythagorean.

* Possible date-Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become his heliocentric astronomy De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.

** Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Congregation of the Index of the Roman Catholic Church.

* October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus ( d. 1543 ) is completed by Bernardino Baldi.

This value was improved by 28 seconds in 1525 by Nicolaus Copernicus, who appealed to the estimation of Thabit ibn Qurra ( 826 – 901 ), which had an error of + 2 seconds.

It was more accurate than later measurements by Copernicus and Tycho Brahe.