Nicholas+Copernicus

=    =   WANTED BY SCIENTISTS WHO ARE UPSET THAT HE BEAT THEM TO FIGURING OUT THAT THE PLANETS ORBIT AROUND THE SUN!

 NICHOLAS COPERNICUS OR MIKOLAJ KOPERNIK (HIS POLISH NAME)BORN BORN FEBRUARY 19, 1473 - DIED MAY 24TH 1543

 HE IS FROM A FAMILY CONSISTING OF HIS FATHER, NICHOLAS COPERNICUS, HIS MOTHER BARBARA WATZENBRADE, HE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF FOUR CHILDREN. HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF CRACOW; WHERE HE STUDIED LIBERAL ARTS. HERE, HE DIDN'T COMPLETE HIS DEGREE. LATER, HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA IN ITALY.

 BORN IN POLAND, HE STARTED SOME WORK, BUT THEN CONTINUED IT ITALY.  HE STUDIED ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY. HE FIGURED OUT MANY THINGS THAT WERE UNKNOWN ABOUT THE STARS, PLANETS, AND OTHER OCCURRENCES IN THE ATMOSPHERE.

"MOTION IS RELATIVE"- NICHOLAS COPERNICUS

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