Portrait of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543),and an astrolabe. These are exhibits in the Nicolaus Copernicus House Museum,Torun,Poland. Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun. He developed a model of the universe that placed the Sun at its centre rather than the Earth. His ideas conflicted with contemporary Roman Catholic doctrine which held that the Universe was Earth-centred,as described by Ptolemy over a thousand years before. The astrolabe is a historical astronomical device used to predict the positions of the stars and other astronomical bodies. It can also be used to determine local time from local latitude,and vice-versa | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Tafreshi, Babak |
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