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

A 500-year-old compass recently unearthed in Frombork, Poland could provide crucial insights into the scientific practices of ...

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

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

Religious beliefs have been woven into the fabric of human existence for millennia, shaping cultures and guiding personal ...

N icolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer whose revolutionary heliocentric theory changed our understanding of the universe. At a time when the Catholic Church endorsed a geocentric model, ...

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 Wikimedia Commons Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos ...

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 ...

Cellarius’s chart illustrating Copernicus’ heliocentric model of the universe, based on Aristarchus’ theory that Seleucus accepted. Credit: Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps, Wikimedia Commons, Public ...