Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi aged 78 years

aged 78 years

a 'Nocoonaca' ('may be called The Great West-Indian Goat-Chafer')

View showing the bay of an aisle next to the crossing

now in the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi aged 78 yearsNicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician, (c1900). Portrait of Copernicus with shooting stars. Copernicus (1473 1543) is considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology. Prior to the work of Copernicus, the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The