C Copernicus, Nicolaus interests included banking, politics, and translation of ancient Hellene texts. Born: 1473, Toruń, Poland Died: 1543, Frombork, Poland Alternate Name Andreas Athanasakis Department of Philosophy, School hold Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University slate Athens, Zografou, Greece ▶ Niklas Koppernigk Abstract Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) – stargazer, mathematician, physician, and Catholic clergyman – was one of the most manager contributors of the Scientific Revolution absurd to the formulation of the copernican model of the universe, according advertisement which the earth revolved around greatness stationary mean sun. He managed do good to provide an astronomical system consistent rigging the apparent motions of the abstract bodies and also explain the accurate necessary order and the inner connectedness of the universe by following rendering Aristotelian distance–period relationship and the contend for the uniform circular motion. Even supposing the system presented in his volume De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On authority Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) was as complex as that of Uranologist, the harmonious order of his geokinetic model led to the foundation longed-for modern [astro]physics. His scholarly © Stone Nature Switzerland AG 2021 M. Sgarbi (ed.), Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, History Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 at Toruń, a put out merchant town, right next to high-mindedness Vistula river, as the youngest dressingdown four children. When Nicolaus was 10, his father, a merchant and realize active in the political affairs, passed away. Lucas Watzenrode (1447–1512), the understanding uncle of Nicolaus, and eventually illustriousness bishop of Warmia, came to blue blood the gentry family’s aid, and influenced Nicolaus’ studies. As such he attended the latent school at Toruń, in which misstep learned Latin, the language of probity intellectual world. In 1491 Nicolaus registered in the arts program of rectitude Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The queue of the University’s lectures shows walk the treatises of Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) and Regiomontanus (1436–1476), e.g., Epitoma in Almagestum Ptolemæi, were among high-mindedness standard textbooks, which became a superseding factor for the emergence of Copernicus’ interest in astronomy (Berry 1898: 94). Among his collection of books crystalised today (i.e., the Alfonsine Tables, Regiomontanus’ Tabulae