NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

Sven,Ida,Mia,Malien,Louis
TOPICS

■ Biography
■ His contribution to
the Renaissance
■ Did he get any problems
because of his work ?
■ Questions
BIOGRAPHY

■ Born on february 19 in the year 1473

■ Born in Torun city which is located in north-central Poland
■ He died because of ceberal haemorrhage
■ Died on the 24th may in the year 1543
■ Father was a merchant of copper
■ He died around  the year 1543
■ He got 70
■ Mother was a rich  women born into a wealthy family and tho
didnt need to work
■ She deceased after 1459
CHILDHOOD

■ He lived in Warmia Poland

■ His parents died both when he was very young
■ His maternal uncle Lucas took him under his
wing and saw potential in him
■ He attended a cathedral school at Włocławek
■ He also attended astronomy lessons
ADULTHOOD

■ He did a grounding of math astronomy philosophical
and natural-science at the university of Krakow
■ Without taking a degree he left Krakow in the fall 
of 1495
■ He went to Bologna in Italy
■ After a few months he began working at Bologna
University of Jurists
■ During his three-year stay at Bologna he devoted
himself to canon law
■ he received his doctorate in canon law only after
seven years, following a second return to Italy in 1503
■ After the  death of his uncle Lucas he returned to
Warmia and started working on the Heliocentric
theory
HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE RENAISSANCE

■ He found out :
■ Why there is day and night and night
■ The planets move on an elliptical path
■ The sun is in the center of the solar system
■ All planets revolve around the sun
■ The earth revolves around itself
■ And everything summed up together equals
the Heliocentric theory
DID HE GET ANY PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF
HIS WORK ?
No he didnt because he died before his theory was
published
QUESTIONS
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