Nicolaus Copernicus: A Renaissance man and his contribution to the development of modern science
The man who ‘stopped the sun, moved the earth’ was not only an astronomer, but also an economist, lawyer, translator, doctor, mathematician and cartographer. He is known primarily as a creator of the heliocentric system theory, a breakthrough in science and a radical shift of the world view of that time. by Piotr Bejrowski …