Copernicus is inarguably one of the greatest minds of science. His contributions to modern astronomical understanding have earned him a permanent position in the hall of science's greatest (and ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which ...

Innovative scanners, 24-karat gold, and a meteorite from 4.5 billion years ago – that’s what was used to produce the newest edition of Nicolaus Copernicus’ autograph manuscript On the Revolutions of ...

In 1510 Nicolaus Copernicus conceived the project that would become the major work of his lifetime: working out the mathematical details of a heliocentric universe. By 1539 his project was ...

His theories may have revolutionised the way we think about the world, but the face of Copernicus has since been lost to time. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in 1473, revolutionised the ...