Thursday, September 18, 2008
RANDOM E BRITANNICA POST
COPERNICUS/KOPPERNIGK, NICHOLAUS- 1473-1554.b. in prussia. father polish, mother duaghter of well-to-do merchant. father died early + education done by uncle Lukas watzen=trode, bishop of esmeland + went to university of cracow in 1491 + studied under albert bradzewski, painting in his spare time. at 23 went to bologna, attending lectures by novarra, prof of astronomy. went to padua, where he studie math, astronomy, + medicine. 1499 got med degree. 1500 went to Rome. pals w/ astronomer montanus + gained a chair of mathmatics. member of chapter of franenburg, where he lived. engaged in clerical work, medicine work for the poor + studied his favorite w/meager tools. made preforations in walls were he lived to watch certain stars. also the remains of his hydrolic machine still where he lived(as of 1891). sought to study diff ancient astronomical systems to get1 that was simple + constant. egyptians had venus, mercury revolving around the sun + mars, jupiter, saturn around earth. apollonians or perga chose the sun as the common center, but like the moon, it turned around the earth. the pythagorians, had the sun center. others earth. philolaus removed earth from the center + no axial rotation, but independent around sun + came up w/ his 1507 to 1530. finally published. de orbiam coelestium revolutionibus libri VI, dedicated to pope paul III, hoping to avoid culumny. printed in nuremburg. to this point, good health, was attacked w/ dysentery, then paralysis on the right(stroke). memory loss + obscuration of understanding + lingered, only for a few hours before death. his book he was finally given to hold, touched it , seemed to 'know' it, the coma? + died. his tomb undistinguished til 1581. adorned it. etc.
COPERNICUS/KOPPERNIGK, NICHOLAUS- 1473-1554.b. in prussia. father polish, mother duaghter of well-to-do merchant. father died early + education done by uncle Lukas watzen=trode, bishop of esmeland + went to university of cracow in 1491 + studied under albert bradzewski, painting in his spare time. at 23 went to bologna, attending lectures by novarra, prof of astronomy. went to padua, where he studie math, astronomy, + medicine. 1499 got med degree. 1500 went to Rome. pals w/ astronomer montanus + gained a chair of mathmatics. member of chapter of franenburg, where he lived. engaged in clerical work, medicine work for the poor + studied his favorite w/meager tools. made preforations in walls were he lived to watch certain stars. also the remains of his hydrolic machine still where he lived(as of 1891). sought to study diff ancient astronomical systems to get1 that was simple + constant. egyptians had venus, mercury revolving around the sun + mars, jupiter, saturn around earth. apollonians or perga chose the sun as the common center, but like the moon, it turned around the earth. the pythagorians, had the sun center. others earth. philolaus removed earth from the center + no axial rotation, but independent around sun + came up w/ his 1507 to 1530. finally published. de orbiam coelestium revolutionibus libri VI, dedicated to pope paul III, hoping to avoid culumny. printed in nuremburg. to this point, good health, was attacked w/ dysentery, then paralysis on the right(stroke). memory loss + obscuration of understanding + lingered, only for a few hours before death. his book he was finally given to hold, touched it , seemed to 'know' it, the coma? + died. his tomb undistinguished til 1581. adorned it. etc.
