Portret Mikołaja Kopernika, ok. 1580
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Portret Mikołaja Kopernika, ok. 1580
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Mikołaj Kopernik

First name:

Mikołaj

Last Name:

Kopernik

Parents:

Mikołaj Kopernik i Barbara Watzenrode

Date of birth:

19-02-1473

Place of birth:

Toruń

Date of death:

21-05-1543

Place od death:

Frombork

Age:

Profession:

diplomat, lawyer, official, doctor, astronomer

Biography:

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - before 1543), Polish lawyer, clerk, physician, lower catholic clergyman, astronomer, creator of the heliocentric model of the solar system, author of On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres , commissioner of Warmia, chancellor of the Warmian cathedral chapter.