Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi Down to Earth market in

Down to Earth market in Leather Lane

25th March 1981

Sir William praised the courage and dedication of the police force

Crowd celebrating the Kaiser's proclamation of war against Great Britain

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi Down to Earth market inNicolas 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