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Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)

13 dated entries naming Nicolaus Copernicus, drawn from 11 separate years between 1473 CE and 1757 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1473February 19 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician (died 1543)source
  • 1491Nicolaus Copernicus enters the University of Krakówsource

16th century

  • 1501July 27 – Copernicus is formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral.source
  • 1508November 29 – Astronomer Mikołaj Kopernik of Poland is granted benefits by Pope Julius II in order to perform his work.source
  • 1512Nicolaus Copernicus begins to write Commentariolus, an abstract of what will eventually become De revolutionibus orbium coelestium; he sends it to other scientists interested in the matter by 1514.source
  • 1514Nicolaus Copernicus's Commentariolus is written by this date.source
  • 1540Georg Joachim Rheticus publishes De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima in Danzig, an abstract of Copernicus' as yet unpublished De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.source
  • 1543March 21 – In Nuremberg, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is printed during the illness of Nicholas Copernicus, offering mathematical arguments for the existence of the heliocentric universe, denying the geocentric model. According to legend, Copernicus, who had a stroke in December, is presented a copy of the book on his deathbed shortly before dying on May 24 in Frombork at the age of 70.source
  • 1543May 24 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)source
  • 1588October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (d.1543) is completed by Bernardino Baldi.source

17th century

  • 1616February 26 – Astronomer Galileo Galilei appears before Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino and "warned of the error of the Copernican opinion taught by him", and enjoined by the Catholic Church against any attempt to hold, teach or defend the position of Copernicus that the Sun is stationary rather than revolving around the Earth "in any way whatsoever, verbally or in writing."source
  • 1616March 5 – De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, written by Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543 is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books, by the Congregation of the Index of the Roman Catholic Church "until corrected".source

18th century

  • 1757April 16 – The works of astronomer Galileo Galilei espousing heliocentrism are removed (with the approval of Pope Benedict XIV) from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum list of books banned by Roman Catholic Church, along with "all books teaching the earth's motion and the sun's immobility". Other works of heliocentrists Galileo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Diego de Zúñiga and Paolo Foscarini remain on the list.source

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