Nicolaus Copernicus

Standard Name: Copernicus, Nicolaus

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC published her first two articles, Brigandage in Sicily and Copernicus in Italy, in the Edinburgh Review.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
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Textual Features Charlotte Maria Tucker
Reflecting CMT 's strong interest in the natural sciences, the fairy character lures children into learning more about this topic. The book's index includes entries such as fermentation and Copernicus, and discusses the cotton...
Textual Features Mary Latter
After the opening dialogue, some Previous Matter makes a brief feint of beginning the book proper and of being straightforward narrative: how the editor, in her humble sphere as country bookseller, came to publish this...

Timeline

1406: The influential work of ancient astronomer...

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1406

The influential work of ancient astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) was translated into Latin.
Bunch, Bryan, and Alexander Hellemans. The Timetables of Technology. Simon and Schuster, 1993.
118

1543: Andreas Vesalius, professor of anatomy at...

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1543

Andreas Vesalius , professor of anatomy at Padua University, published De humani corporis fabrica, and Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus.
Laqueur, Thomas. “Even Immortality”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 3-9.
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Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
173

17 February 1600: Giordano Bruno, a Neapolitan philosopher...

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17 February 1600

Giordano Bruno , a Neapolitan philosopher and former Dominican friar, was burned by the Inquisition , apparently less for his support of Copernicus than for his Plato nist and Pantheistic thinking.
Plumptre, C. E. Giordano Bruno. Chapman and Hall, 1884.
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1650: The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz, sometimes...

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1650

The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz , sometimes called the second Hypatia, published her Urania Propitia, which builds on the work of Johannes Kepler .
Mulvihill, Margaret E. “Old Books / New Editions. Part III of III. New Work on Margaret Cavendish’s ‘The Blazing World’ (1666; 2016)”. Rare Book Hub, Dec. 2016.

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