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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikołaj Szyszkowski. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Nicolaus Copernicus (German: ; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; Polish: ; Italian: ; 19 February 1473 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution. Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Among his many responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world. Birthplace on St. Anne's (now Copernicus) Street, ToruNicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toru (Thorn) in Royal Prussia, part of the Kingdom of Poland. His father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Toru merchant. Nicolaus was the youngest of four children. His brother Andreas (Andrew) became an Augustinian canon at Frombork (Frauenburg). His...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=323592 ... Read more

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Chapters: James Iv of Scotland, Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, Nicolaus Copernicus, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Pierre Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, Henry Iv, Duke of Saxony, Georg Von Frundsberg, Hans Burgkmair, János Corvinus, Cecilia Gallerani, James Beaton, Ramathibodi Ii, Orsino Orsini, Imagawa Ujichika, Johannes Cuspinianus, Agostino Nifo, Ferry Carondelet, Charles D'amboise, Choe Sejin, James Iii of Cyprus, Maddalena De' Medici, Guillaume Poyet, Marcus Antonius Antimachus, Bhil Pal, Louis, Prince of La Roche-Sur-Yon, Pierpaolo Parisio, Arakida Moritake, Asakura Sadakage. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 128. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nicolaus Copernicus (German: ; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; Polish: ; Italian: ; 19 February 1473 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution. Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classical scholar, translator, artist, Catholic cleric, jurist, g...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=323592 ... Read more

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Nicolaus Copernicus - Pioneer Astronomer is the biography of Nicolaus Copernicus, the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution. Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist. Amid his extensive responsibilities, astronomy figured as little more than an avocation - yet it was in that field that he made his mark upon the world. Nicolaus Copernicus - Pioneer Astronomer is highly recommended for those interested in reading more about this important Renaissance Astronomer. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Christoph Hartknoch, Nicolaus Copernicus, Hermann Rauschning, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, Grażyna Ciemniak, Werner Henke, Lucas Watzenrode, Stanisław Dąmbski, Wiesław Jaguś, Elżbieta Zawacka, Samuel Thomas Von Sömmerring, Karol Ząbik, Leopold Prowe, Major Waldemar Fydrych, Kazimierz Serocki, Adrian Miedziński, Lotte Jacobi, Michał Cała, Johannes Abezier, Piotr Całbecki, Waldemar Achramowicz, Olga Szelc, Julie Wolfthorn, Leszek Dunecki, Walter John, Salomon Kalischer, Maciej Franz, Jerzy Wenderlich, Maciej Konacki, Samuel Linde, Bodo Tümmler, Jacek Yerka, Antoni Stawikowski, Bogusław Linda, Regina Smendzianka, Tony Halik, Łukasz Pawłowski, Włodzimierz Kryszewski, Łukasz Zbonikowski, Erwin Gillmeister, Łukasz Karwowski, Tomasz Warczachowski, Marian Norkowski, Agata Srokowska, Sylwester Kaliski. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 163. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nicolaus Copernicus (German: ; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; Polish: ; Italian: ; 19 February 1473 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the Copernican Revolution. Among the great polymaths ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=323592 ... Read more

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Chapters: Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw, Central Cemetery in Szczecin, Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, Kraków, Florian Gate, Adam Mickiewicz Monument, Kraków, the Monument Cemetery of the Lost Cemeteries, Miła 18, Frédéric Chopin Monument in Żelazowa Wola, Szczecin Bismarck Tower, Warsaw Meridian, Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970, Silesian Insurgents Monument, Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Kraków, Pranger of Poznań. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in the home town of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543) was erected in 1853 by a "monument committee" of the city's residents. King Frederick the Great of Prussia (17121786) intended to erect a monument at Copernicus' grave in Frauenburg (Frombork), but the grave could not be located. Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (14731543) lived in Thorn (Toru), then in the Kingdom of Poland, for many years. In the late 18th century, Poland was partitioned and the city of Thorn passed to Prussia. From 1807 to 1813, the city was part of the Duchy of Warsaw, governed by Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. A monument to Copernicus was then planned by the Polish scientist and philosopher Stanisaw Staszic, after he had heard that Napoleon had expressed surprise during a visit to Thorn in 1807 that there was no monument there to Copernicus. Polish Roman Catholic clergy likewise supported the erection of a monument. In 1809 Napoleon commissioned Bertel Thorvaldsen and on Staszic's initiative, a cornerstone was laid for a monument. However, at the time, Prussian authorities, who were still nominally in charge of the city, would not approve the full construction of the monument. The fall of Napoleon ended the existence of the ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24829642 ... Read more

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Solar System - Discovery and exploration of the SolarSystem, Planetary system, Star system, Aryabhata,Aristarchus of Samos, Nicolaus Copernicus, Kepler'slaws ofplanetary motion, Apsis, Dwarf planet, Ceres (dwarfplanet),Pluto, Haumea (dwarf planet), Makemake (dwarfplanet), Eris(dwarf planet), 90377 Sedna, 90482 Orcus, 50000 Quaoar,Small Solar System body, Sun, G V star,Hertzsprung?Russelldiagram, Metallicity, Universe, Interplanetary medium,Geomagnetic storm, Earth's magnetic field, Terrestrialplanet, Asteroid belt, Mars, Asteroid, Gas giant, Comet,Formation and evolution of the Solar System,Scattered disc,Oort cloud, Vulcanoid asteroid, Planets beyond Neptune,Nemesis (star), Kuiper belt ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Girolamo Savonarola, Ludovico Ariosto, Paracelsus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Amato Lusitano, Massimo Pigliucci, Gabriele Falloppio, William Latimer. Excerpt:Amato Lusitano João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco , better known as Amato Lusitano and Amatus Lusitanus (Castelo Branco , 1511 Thessaloniki , 1568), was a notable Portuguese Jewish physician of the 16th century. Like Herophilus , Galen , Ibn al-Nafis , Michael Servetus , Realdo Colombo and William Harvey , he is credited as making a discovery in the circulation of the blood . He is said to have discovered the function of the valves in the circulation of the blood. Lusitano was born in Castelo Branco in 1511, of Jewish parents. He studied medicine at the University of Salamanca , Spain . Unable to return to Portugal as he wished, due to the persecutions of the Inquisition , he travelled throughout Europe before settling in Ferrara , Italy , at whose University he taught anatomy as an assistant to the physician Giambattista Canano . He wrote several books, including Index Dioscoridis (1536), In Dioscorides de Medica materia Librum quinque enarrationis (1556), and Curationium Centuriae Septem (1556). He was for a time the physician to the Pope Julius III , in Rome . With the accession of Pope Paul IV , persecutions of the Jews in Italy began. Lusitano fled first to Ragusa , then to Thessaloniki , Greece , which then had a large Jewish community and was part of the Ottoman Empire . Life Lusitano was born in 1511 in Castelo Branco , Portugal . He was a descendant of a Marrano family called Chabib (= Amatus), and was brought up in the Jewish faith. After having graduated with honors as M.D. from the University of Salamanca , in Spain , he left his native country of Portugal in fear of the Inquisition . He went to Antwerp , Belgium for ... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1508 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and others. In these celestial models the stars and planets are carried around by being embedded in rotating spheres made of an aetherial transparent fifth element (quintessence), like jewels set in orbs. In Ptolemy's geocentric model adopted in the middle ages, the planetary spheres (i.e. those that contained planets) were arranged outwards from the spherical, stationary Earth at the centre of the universe in this order: the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The planetary spheres were followed by the stellar sphere containing the fixed stars; other scholars added a ninth sphere to account for the precession of the equinoxes, a tenth to account for the supposed trepidation of the equinoxes, and even an eleventh to account for the changing obliquity of the ecliptic. In antiquity the order of the lower planets was not universally agreed. Plato and his followers ordered them Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, and then followed the standard model for the upper spheres. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Zbigniew Herbert ( listen) (29 October 1924 in Lwów 28 July 1998 in Warsaw) was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement Home Army (AK) during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. He was first published in 1950; his writing debut was a volume of verse String of light and it was published in 1956. One of Herberts most valuable works is a cycle of writings about Pan Cogito (Mr. Cogito), a character that is very modern but still sticks to the European cultural tradition. He was a distant relative of the 17th century poet George Herbert. Herbert was a bachelor of the Order of the White Eagle and was educated as an economist and lawyer. In the 1980s Herbert was the main poet of the Polish opposition. Starting in 1986, he lived in Paris, where he cooperated with the journal Zeszyty Literackie. He came back to Poland in 1992. On 1 July 2007 the Polish Government decided that 2008 would be the Year of Zbigniew Herbert. Herbert's familyThe Herberts probably had some English roots and they came to Galicia from Vienna. The poets father, Bolesaw (half-blooded Armenian), was a soldier in the Polish Legions during World War I and a defender of Lwów; he was a lawyer and worked as a bank manager. Herberts grandfather was an English language teacher. Zbigniews mother, Maria, came from the Kaniaków family. Before the war Zbigniew Herbert attended the Pastwowe VIII Gimnazjum i Liceum im. Króla Kazimierza Wielkiego we Lwowie (during the Soviet occupation the name was changed to High School nr 14). After the German and Soviet invasion and subsequent occupation of Lwów, he continued his studies at the secret meetings organized... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1195679 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Hevelius, Peter Crüger, Nathanael Matthaeus Von Wolf, Elisabeth Hevelius. Excerpt:Johannes Hevelius and Elisabeth making observations Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann Hevelius (1647 1693) was the second wife of Johannes Hevelius . Like her husband, she was also an astronomer. Elisabeth Koopmann (or Kaufmann , German : " merchant " ) was, like Hevelius and his first wife, a member of a rich merchant family in the Hanseatic League city of Danzig (Gdansk). The marriage of the sixteen year old to Hevelius in 1663 allowed her also to pursue her own interest in astronomy by helping him manage his observatory. They had a son, who died soon, and three daughters who survived . Following his death in 1687, she completed and published Prodromus astronomiae (1690), their jointly compiled catalogue of 1,564 stars and their positions. She is considered one of the first female astronomers, and called "the mother of moon charts". Her life was recently novelized as The Star Huntress (2006). The minor planet 12625 Koopman is named in her honour, as is the crater Corpman on Venus. References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Johannes Hevelius, by Daniel Schultz Johannes Hevelius (Latin ; in German , Johannes Hewel, Johann Hewelke, Johannes Höwelcke ; in Polish , Jan Heweliusz ; January 28, 1611 January 28, 1687) was a Protestant councillor and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Danzig (Gda sk ), Pomerelia , then in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . As an astronomer he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography " and described ten new constellations , seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Early life Hevelius' father was Abraham Hewelke (1576 1649), his mother Kordula Hecker (1576 1655). They were a ... ... Read more