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| Nicolaus Copernicus |
Celebrates the famous search engine "Google", on Tuesday the 450 anniversary of the birth of sports and the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus, the theory of the earth's rotation around the sun, which turned the scales, and the perceptions of scientists and philosophers at the time.
The Copernicus envisioned a new system the universe in the sun is the center around which the Earth, instead of the old Aristotelian perception that he was preparing the ground center of the universe.
And cum to the new conception of the universe be Copernicus, began what has become known as revolution Alkoprniqih, which did not change the position of the sun and the earth, but the man himself in the universe, and which has become philosophers view it as a small object in the universe.
The Koprnicos (1473 - 1543) one of the leading scientists and thinkers of the Renaissance in Europe and the most influence, and was a scholar of that era Mosusaan, as it was mathematically and astronomically and preventive and Verriai translator and priest, diplomat and governor and economic at the same time, has studied medicine and canon law, has finished his Italy with attainable thirtieth birthday.
The name refers Copernicus to the town where he was born, as people were called at the time of Copernicus as places in which they are born.Copernicus was fluent in Latin, Greek, Polish and Italian.
It should be noted that the Latin was the language of science in the Renaissance. Some say that Copernicus mother language was German but that contested so far.
Copernicus began work on the new conception of the universe around the year 1514 when he presented a paper a forty-page explains the basic premise in seven points, but then completed his work to expand far Ziath and deepening. By the year of 1532 was Copernicus had almost completed its work and published Badz you in the book "revolutions in the celestial spaces", but much before its publication frequency to the public for fear of scorn and criticism and atonement.
It is noteworthy that the Catholic Church was embrace the Aristotelian conception of the universe, and were regarded as anything out of him as a heresy and blasphemy.
In 1542 Copernicus wounded stroke and paralysis, and died in May 1543 at the age of seventy years.
Noteworthy that Google yesterday celebrated the anniversary of the birth of the Persian Muslim world Nasir al-Din Tusi, who said the centrality of the sun before Copernicus
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