The Inventor
Nicolaus Copernicus
Known as the originator of the Heliocentric Theory, the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun as its axis. Nicolaus Copernicus is also known as an astronomer and mathematician.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Toru, Poland. Nicolaus Copernicus' father was Nicolaus Copernicus Sr. and his mother was Barbara Watzenrode. He is known to have three siblings. In Poland he was known as Niklas Koppernigk.
CHILDHOOD
His childhood and his first education he got in Torun which became his homeland. Later he studied at Chelmno. There he learned about Latin and the works of ancient writers.
At the age of 18, Nicolaus Copernicus moved to the Polish capital of Krakow. There he studied at university and pursued his interest in astronomy. His goal is to become an astronomer.
After completing his education in Krakow, Uncle asked his nephew to move in Frombok around the Baltic Sea region. He asked his nephew to be on the staff of the cathedral.
STUDYING IN ITALY
But because of his dream of becoming an Astronomer, Copernicus then left for Bologna and Padua, Italy. There he studied church law, mathematics and medical science.
There he was also familiar with Domenico Maria Novara who was an astronomer and philosopher named Pietro Pomponazzi. He was also the first person to translate Greek documents into Poland.
After completing his education in Italy, Copernicus returned to Poland. His uncle made Nicolaus Copernicus his advisor, secretary and personal physician to his uncle.
For several years, Nicolaus Copernicus occupied many administrative offices in Poland. He also studied many stars and planets in the solar system.
THE HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
The results of Nicolaus Copernicus' research led to the Heliocentric theory that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun as its axis.
But there is still a weakness of opinion expressed by the two Greek astronomers. Nicolaus Copernicus spent the rest of his life correcting various arguments and mathematical formulas in support of his Heliocentric theory.
PUBLISHING PAPER COMMENTARIOLUS
Nicolaus Copernicus made a brief summary of his theoretical ideas in a paper entitled Commentariolus.
This paper on his research attracted a lot of interest from scientists when it even reached Germany and Rome. In 1533, Pope Clemens VII even wrote to Nicolaus Copernicus through Cardinal Schonberg to explain the Heliocentric theory.
Then a German professor named Georg Joachim Rheticus visited Copernicus out of curiosity for his theory. Georg Joachim Rhineticus spent two years with Nicolaus Copernicus.
In 1542, Georg Joachim Rheticus obtained a complete manuscript of Nicolaus Copernicus's ideas and presented them to the printer.
The importer named Osiander then named the manuscript as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Regarding the Turn of the Sky Spheres).
The biography of Nicolaus Copernicus reveals that Nicolaus Copernicus, the original author, did not receive a copy of the print until his death on May 24, 1543. Nicolaus Copernicus is buried in Frombork, Poland.
THEORIES THAT CREATE CONTROVERSY
In the Biography of Nicolaus Copernicus it is also known that after the death of Nicolaus Copernicus, the churches later received copies of Nicolaus Copernicus' research manuscript on his Heliocentric theory.
The first Lutheran church criticized Nicolaus Copernicus' theory as absurd. Later the Catholic church suggested that Nicolaus Copernicus' Heliocentric theory was in direct opposition to the dogma or teachings of the church.
Nicolaus Copernicus' manuscript was banned from study in 1616. But over time, Nicolaus Copernicus' Heliocentric theory was proven even corroborated by Galileo Galilei who also studied planets and stars and developed by Kepler and Sir Isaac Newton.
