EditorialNicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
EditorialJohn Hevelii Machine C?lestis, Ptolemy, Hiparchus, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe with astronomical instruments and globe, Signed: A. Boy delineavit; J. Falck sculpsit, copper title, Boy, Adolf (del.); Falck, Jeremiasboy (sc.), 1673, Johannes Hevelius: Joh...
EditorialPoland. Sculpture of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) in Warsaw. Polish astronomer of the Renaissance who formulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system, holding an astrolabe. Etching 1850.
EditorialNicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated an heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center. "Orbes Celeste" celestial constellations. Arctic and Antarctic. E...
EditorialJoan Blaeu's " Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Introduction to volume I: " the earth is in the center of the universe.. ", this despite the fact that Copernicu...
EditorialTelescope (16th), Tycho de Brahe's handwritten " Tables of Sines" and the first edition of Copernicus' " Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, " annotated by Tycho de Brahe.
EditorialNicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Polish astronomer and mathematician. Portrait. Watercolor by the Spanish illustrator Francisco Fonollosa (late 20th century).