Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 by Jesse Hurlbut

by Jesse Hurlbut

with a description in the lower margin

9th June 1977

Green Street

All three of them are wearing hooped skirts

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 by Jesse HurlbutNicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician, (c1900). Portrait of Copernicus with shooting stars. Copernicus (1473 1543) is considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology. Prior to the work of Copernicus, the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The