This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which ...
Nicolaus Copernicus was not around to teach Kim McCarthy’s students about the heavens in 1987. The early astronomer had departed for the stars in 1543. McCarthy decided to bring the European genius to ...
A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig in northern Poland. This rare find, made near the remains of a ...
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