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“The Father Of Modern Astronomy”
JMJ April 28, 2004 Physics Period 5 From the first time children are introduced to astronomy in second grade, they are told that the sun is the center of the solar system. This was not always the case. For centuries, civilization believed the whole universe revolved around the earth. This was easy to believe since all the astral bodies seemed to make an arch across the sky, and, in relativity to the people on the ground, it was the sky that was moving, and not the earth itself. This whole misconception was questioned in 1514 when a man named Nicholas Copernicus distributed a book called Little Commentary and then completely shattered in 1543, in his book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium Libri VI (Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs). Nicholas Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland with the name Mikolaj Kopernik. He was born into a wealthy merchant family and was the youngest of four children. After his father's death in 1485, his uncle Lucas Watzenrode took his nephew under his care. Watzenrode, the bishop of the chapter of Varmia, sponsored Nicolas' education and his future career as a church canon. Between 1491 and 1494 Copernicus studied liberal arts, including astronomy and astrology, at the University of Krakow. The astronomy courses that Copernicus studied were scientific courses in the modern sense. Instead, they were mathematics courses that introduced Aristotle and Ptolemy's view of the universe so that students could understand the calendar, calculate the dates of holy days, and also have skills that would enable those who would follow a more practical profession to navigate at sea. Also taught as a major part of astronomy was what today w... Please login to view comments from other users.
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