Nicolaus Copernicus

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Catholic cleric Renaissance scientist astronomer canon lawyer economist human mathematician physician

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the heliocentric model that placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic cleric → Renaissance scientist → astronomer → canon lawyer → economist → human → mathematician → physician →
birthDate	1473-02-19 →
birthPlace	Kingdom of Poland → Royal Prussia → Toruń →
burialPlace	Frombork Cathedral →
citizenship	Kingdom of Poland →
commemoratedBy	Copernicus Crater on the Moon → Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw → chemical element copernicium →
deathDate	1543-05-24 →
deathPlace	Frombork → Royal Prussia →
education	University of Bologna → University of Ferrara → University of Kraków → University of Padua →
era	Renaissance →
ethnicity	Polish →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → canon law → economics → mathematics → medicine →
fullName	Mikołaj Kopernik →
influenced	Galileo Galilei → Giordano Bruno → Isaac Newton → Johannes Kepler →
influencedBy	Aristarchus of Samos → Ptolemy → Regiomontanus →
knownFor	Copernican Revolution → De revolutionibus orbium coelestium → heliocentric model of the universe →
languageOfWorks	Latin →
latinName	Nicolaus Copernicus →
notableWork	De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →
positionHeld	administrator in Warmia → canon at Frombork Cathedral →
publicationYear	1543 →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
studied	astronomy → canon law → mathematics → medicine →
theory	Earth and planets orbit the Sun → Earth rotates on its axis → Sun at the center of the universe →

Referenced by (18)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems → Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae → Galileo Galilei → Johannes Kepler → Tycho Brahe ("Copernicus") →	influencedBy
Copernican revolution in philosophy → Copernicus Airport Wrocław →	namedAfter
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium →	author
Mysterium Cosmographicum →	basedOnTheoryOf
Toruń →	birthplaceOf
Nicolaus Copernicus ("Mikołaj Kopernik") →	fullName
University of Padua →	hasNotableAlumnus
Scientific Revolution →	hasParticipant
Claudius Ptolemaeus ("Claudius Copernicus") →	influenced
Copernican revolution in philosophy →	inspiredBy
Nicolaus Copernicus →	latinName
Jagiellonian University →	notableAlumnus
Renaissance Latin →	usedBy