Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February, 1473 in Poland . He is best known for his treatise De revolutionibus orbium coelestiu or On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, where he argued that it was not the earth that
Mountain View (California): Continuing with its much feted trend, search giant Google on Tuesday came up a classy doodle to pay tribute to legendary astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus on his 540th birthday. Copernicus is famously known for his theory that
Early adapters of heliocentrism, today is for you. Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish Renaissance man who first floated the theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the
Happy Birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus, born this day 540 years ago. Though his work on orbits still left us with epicycles (Kepler would succeed in eliminating them with his elliptical orbits replacing Copernicus' circular ones)
The Earth revolves round the Sun, which lies at the centre of the universe. A theory by Nicolaus Copernicus that changed the way the solar system was perceived. Google on Tuesday celebrated the 540th birth anniversary of the Nicolaus Copernicus with a
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