Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Earth Revolves Around The Sun
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on feburary 19 1473. He was born in a torun poland. He was the first one to think of a heliocentric cosmology which moved the earth out of the center of the solar system. The way he figured it out by looking at the stars and the way they moved around the earth and how the sun moved around the earth. He published his own book in 1543 just before his death. The book was called De revolutinibus orbium coelestium. The church was furious with him they basically told him he was nuts. That it wasn't possible because if that was the case than why did God create us. The theory did not make sense to them and it wasn't possible to prove so he got told to go away. Based on different documents some say he was sentenced to house arrest. There are others that say he was burned alive and others still that said he died from depression. His work eventually went down in history as a landmark it was called the Copernicus Revolution. It eventually stimulated further investagations.
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