Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10 dated entries naming Nicolaus Copernicus, drawn from 10 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
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Joachim Rheticus publishes De libris revolutionum Copernici narratio prima in Danzig, an abstract of Copernicus' as yet unpublished De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.source
- 1588October 7 – The first biography of Nicolaus Copernicus (d.1543) is completed by Bernardino Baldi.source
17th century
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