Exploring the grounds of the religious site, also known as the Frombork Cathedral, the archaeologists employed ...

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig ...

ON May 24, 1543, died Nioolaus Copernicus. A few days previously, as he lay on his deathbed, the first printed copy of his great work, “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coalestium” , which was ...

Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. It was a complete overhaul of our ...

ARISTARCHUS, who flourished in the first half of the third century B.C., is chiefly known as the only philosopher or astronomer of antiquity who taught that the earth moves, round the sun. This ...

The Man Who Moved the Earth: the 550th Anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus' Birthexhibition opened at the China Science and Technology Museum on Thursday. [Photo by Yan Dongjie / China Daily ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s ...

It was only in 1542 that Copernicus sent his now-famous treatise to Nuremberg to be published. Nearly a hundred years later, Kepler, Galileo and Isaac Newton further popularised the heliocentric ...

Copernicus basically finished “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” in 1532, but only published his heliocentric thesis on his deathbed in 1543 fearing the church’s scorn. The seed had been sown, but ...