During the Renaissance, astronomy was founded by a famous astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. In the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, Nicolaus Copernicus is introduced as followed: "Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish cathedral canon, was the greatest astronomer of the first half of the sixteenth century and initiated a revolution in astronomy" (Astronomy). Besides Nicolaus Copernicus, there were also some well-known astronomers such as Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei at that time. ... Ptolemy's Almagest is counted as one of the most important books that contribute to ...

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This was only until a man by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus revealed his results of the studies he had been doing. ... These patterns will hopefully continue to bring us the unexpected to only make the world BETTER because knowledge works both ways....

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Nicolaus Copernicus believed in the heliocentric model of the universe. ... It had the same flaws as Copernicus' model, but it didn't go against the church. ... Kepler revised Copernicus's model of a heliocentric universe. ... His works were studied, and considered the highest authority on anatomy. ... He, like Copernicus, went against the norm, and preeched what he believed. ...

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In the second stage, presents the most relevant in your career life, who his parents were, how many brothers did, to be engaged, where he studied, whom he married, how many children they had, where he worked and took him to write his works. ... Among the most relevant of the Renaissance Naples war between Spain and France is for control of Naples kingdom, while on the other side of the world, Hernán courteous conquest the Aztec empire in 1519 In science Nicolaus Copernicus states that the sun is the center of the solar system that was in 1512 the Church of England broke with the Roman p...

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But about 1400 years later, a Polish astronomer, named Nicolaus Copernicus created a new theory relying on his knowledge of mathematics to develop a more modern and refined understanding of how the universe works. In Copernicus's theory, "the Heliocentric Universe," he shows the universe as how we know it today, with everything revolving around the Sun. When Copernicus revealed his theory to the public, the Catholic Church was not to happy with his discovery. According to them, Copernicus's new theory disproved everything that the Church had been teaching since around the birth of Je...

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As Nicolaus Copernicus acted as the first serious threat to this theory by claiming that the sun rested in the center of the universe, he was relentlessly attacked and eventually his theories were considered illogical and were disregarded. Copernicus's failures in attempting to evolve the beliefs of the church did not discourage future scientists such as Brahe and Kepler from promoting the heliocentric model of the universe. ... As harsh censorship suppressed the fiery hearts of all who desired to read the masses of books that spread throughout a time sometimes known as the "reading revol...

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Aquinas' works became Catholic dogma which survived with little change into the Twenty- first Century. ... In the early Sixteenth Century, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Mikolaj Kopernik ("Copernicus-) promulgated the theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun. Copernicus' theory did not seriously threaten Catholic dogma until later in the century when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei published a concurring treatise. ...

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