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Nicolaus Copernicus Background: Nicolaus Copernicus was a renaissance Astronomer and the first to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology  which displaced the earth from the center of the universe. Childhood : Nicolaus was born on February 19 1473 on St. Annes street in the city of Torun in the kingdom of Poland. He was the youngest of 4 children. in the year of 1491 he enrolled himself at the krakow academy. and stayed for 4 years, then went back to Torun to study law. Education : He attended school at the university of Krakow to study mathematics and Astronomy, which the university of Krakow was famous for teaching. Career: in 1503 he went on to receive his doctorate degree in canon law. He studied astronomy but never practiced it. Later in 1504 he began to collect observations that were important in the field of astronomy Jobs: He was a Secretary from 1503 to 1510. Worked in bishops caste from and a 1510 polish tectonic from 1519 to 1521. Achievements : He was an astronomer who discovered that the plants and the stars revolve around the sun. He was the first to say that the earth along with the other heavenly bodies orbited around the sun not the other way around.

Influence on the world: Nicolaus influenced the world by by spreading intellectual independence by going against the church, provoking other scientist such as Galileo. He proposed that our sun was the center of the universe. media type="youtube" key="H7906NZLlx4" width="425" height="350"

Nicolaus Copernics