Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding light on his astronomical work.

Polish Scientists Discovered 1,000-Year-Old Wooden Face in Lake Lednica During Underwater Expedition For years, ...

Copernicus also understood the importance of a strong currency and, at the King’s request, wrote a treaty on how to deal with inflation, stating: ...

Meet Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nicolaus Copernicus proposed his theory that ...

Copernicus's model is called sun-centered or heliocentric. In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the ...

Copernicus: “[The debasement of coinage] … is noticed by only a few very thoughtful people, since it does not operate all at once and at a single blow, but gradually overthrows governments ...

This painting of Copernicus – one of the most well-known portraits of the astronomer – shows him around the age of 40. It is located in the Old City Town Hall Museum in Toruń, Poland.

For Copernicus, A 'Perfect Heaven' Put Sun At The Center In 1543, when Nicolaus Copernicus made the astounding claim that Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around, ...

Copernicus described 2022 as “a year of climate extremes” that brought record-breaking heatwaves in Europe, deadly floods in Pakistan, extreme widespread flooding in Australia, ...

Copernicus is believed to be a lunar impact crater, formed by the collision from the fragment of an asteroid some 800 million years ago. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this view of the lunar ...

We take our understanding of the solar system for granted, but it took centuries to figure out. The original writings of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo and others show how they sparked a revolution.