Nicolaus Copernicus Facts
Nicolaus Copernicus Facts
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| Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun in what is now Poland. |
| From 1491 to 1495 he studied at the University of Krakow where he studied astronomy and mathematics. |
| In 1496 he entered the University of Bologna where received a doctorate in canon law but he was never ordained a priest. |
| He studied at the medicine at University of Padua. |
| From 1503 to 1510 he was the physician and secretary to the Bishop of Warmia who was also his uncle. |
| He undertook many diplomatic journeys for his uncle during this turbulent time. |
| In June 1512 he received a house with a tower and there he made many of his subsequent celestial observations. |
| In 1515 he observed Mars and Saturn and discovered the variability of the Earth's orbital eccentricity. |
| His book influenced the deliberations of the Fifth Lateran Council in their reform of the Julian calendar. |
| He was an advisor to the Royal Polish parliament on monetary reform and he wrote a study on the value of money. |
| In 1517 he formulated a quantity theory of money which states that the supply of money has a direct relationship to prices. |
| This remains a key theory in economics. |
| In 1526 he wrote a second theory of economics which came to be known as Gresham's Law and which states that undervalued currency will leave and overvalued currency will flood the market. |
| In 1532 Copernicus had finished his manuscript De revolutionibus orbium coelestium but refused to publish it for fear of ridicule. |
| By 1551 his heliocentric theory was published and quickly adopted by astronomers. |
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