Copernicus

This page is about a scientist named Copernicus. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGtriSso6r0 -check out this link for more funny YouTube video. =Copernicus- Personal Life = =Education=
 * Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Poland on February 19 1473.
 * He was born to a German family.
 * He had to take care of 5 younger children until the end of his life.
 * He never married or had children.
 * He began his schooling at the University of Krakow in Poland
 * He started an interest in astronomy with his teacher [|Albert Brudzewsk] at the university.
 * He did a lot of independant study in the library at Krakow.
 * Schooling at Krakow ended without a __degree__, and Copernicus started at the __Bologna__ University.
 * He then moved on to multiple universities in Italy, before returning to Warmia in Poland.

Famous Work

 * Before Copernicus people thought the earth was the center of the solar system, and the planets orbited around it.
 * They thought the earth was stationary.
 * Copernicus's hypothesis was that the sun was the center of the solar system, and the earth revolved around it.
 * He was basically the first person to come up with the __idea__.
 * He published it in book called On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
 * His __idea__ caused a controversy with the Catholic Church.[[image:suncenter.gif]]-Copernicus's model of the universe

Death

 * Copernicus died in Frauenburg (Frombork) on 24 May 1543.
 * He woke up after a stroke-induced coma, looked at his book, and he died.

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 * On 14 July 2009 Copernicus had an element named after him.
 * Element 112, copernicium, was the name of the element.
 * <span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969);">It's symbol is Cn.
 * It is the heaviest element, 277 times heavier than hydrogen.
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