Nicolaus Copernicus was an outstanding man. Before him, everyone believed the earth was the center of the universe. Upon a deeper study he came to the conclusion that the earth revolved a full circle once daily on an axis around the sun. Nicolaus was born February 19th, 1473. His father had an untimely death when Nicolaus was only 10 years old. The death of his father caused his to move in with his uncle who was a priest. His uncle made sure that Nicolaus continued to receive an education. In 1496 he went to Italy to study law, while he was there he stayed with a professor, Domenico Maria de Novara. He supported Nicolaus’ interests with science.
By 1530 Nicolaus Copernicus had finished a book, ‘De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium’ a 405 page masterpiece about his facts on the universe changing the ideas of the human race for …show more content…
This ended up as a wonderful treat for Galileo as he rightfully took place at the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1598. His first biographer, Vicenzo Viviani, claimed Galileo dropped items of disparate weights from the Leaning Tower. This proved that the speed an object falls isn’t proportional to weight. With these facts he created produced yet another document, this one named ‘De Motu Antiquiora’. When translated in English, this means ‘In