About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: People from Royal Prussia, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Warmia, Albrecht Giese, Georg Forster, Daniel Chodowiecki, Johann Friedrich Endersch, Andreas Schluter, Regina Protmann, Hans von Bodeck, Bernhard von Reesen, Johannes Dantiscus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Samuel Hartlib, Johannes Hevelius, Johannes von Baysen, Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, Bogus aw Radziwi, Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Mauritius Ferber, Jakub Wejher, Samuel Thomas von Sommerring, Gottfried Lengnich, Malbork Voivodeship, Avraham Danzig, Stanislaus Hosius, Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Gottfried Achenwall, Johann Reinhold Forster, Che mno Voivodeship, Jeremias Falck, Bartholomaus Keckermann, Lucas David, Jacob Theodor Klein, Jakob Sigismund Beck, Gottlieb Hufeland, Tiedemann Giese, Johann Daniel Titius, Franciszek Bieli ski, Georg Giese, Stanis aw Ernest Denhoff, Johann Philipp Breyne, Ius indigenatus, Franz Rhode, Daniel Gralath, Jakob Karweyse, Christian Wernicke, Johann Gottfried Roesner, Pawe Jan Dzia y ski, Jan Wejher, Dorothea Ackermann, Dominic of Prussia, Ludwik Wejher, Johann Albrecht Adelgrief, Miko aj Wejher. Excerpt: Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Italian: Polish: in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person 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 res...
