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Copernicus, Nicolaus
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543)Polish churchman and astronomer of German parentage (in Polish, Mikołaj Kopernigk). While a student he had come to believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not vice versa. Such a view was held to be heretical, the Church regarding the geocentric world-view of
Aristotle and
Ptolemy as consistent with its doctrines. Copernicus set down his basic ideas around 1510 in the
Commentariolus, which was circulated anonymously. In 1512–29 he made the observations that he needed to support his theory, while carrying out ecclesiastic and local administrative duties. In 1539 the Austrian astronomer and mathematician Georg Joachim von Lauchen (1514–74), known as Rheticus, became a pupil of Copernicus and began to spread his ideas. The
Copernican system was published openly in 1543 in the book
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. However, the reality of a heliocentric Solar System came to be accepted only after the work of
Galileo and J.
Kepler.
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The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/9/2006; 518 words
; THE FIRST COPERNICAN: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution...mathematical prodigy named Georg Joachim Rheticus. Danielson, an English professor, tells how Rheticus got his start in academia and became a key...
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Rheticus, Georg Joachim: The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 9/22/2007; ; 461 words
; Rheticus, Georg Joachim The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution. Dennis...puzzling figure. His excellent book reconstructs Rheticus's life in crisp, well-documented detail. Danielson...
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The first Copernican; Georg Joachim Rheticus and the rise of the Copernican Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 12/1/2006; 498 words
; ...The first Copernican; Georg Joachim Rheticus and the rise of the Copernican Revolution...Nicolaus Copernicus found Georg Joachim Rheticus at his door the visit turned into three...and planets rotated around the sun. Rheticus got the manuscript to a German publisher...
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More than one secret in the life of Nicholas Copernicus.(Copernicus Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Science & Spirit; 3/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...these early in his career in a short essay, and his acolyte, Rheticus, did likewise in a popular book. But this was a distracted...characters weave in and out, and perhaps most tragic among them is Rheticus, a brilliant Lutheran mathematician who might have become...
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The earth whirls everywhere.
Magazine article from: Poetry; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the ordinary course of researching the characters' lives. Rheticus, the young mathematician who persuaded Copernicus to publish...sixteenth-century science books, and Joachim Camerarius, one of Rheticus's associates, wrote several Greek verses that were intended...
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The Earth Whirls Everywhere
Magazine article from: Poetry; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the ordinary course of researching the characters' lives. Rheticus, the young mathematician who persuaded Copernicus to publish...sixteenth-century science books, and Joachim Camerarius, one of Rheticus's associates, wrote several Greek verses that were intended...
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Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began.(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Science News; 12/22/2007; 528 words
; ...the grave with him but for the intervention of Georg Joachim Rheticus, a young professor who tracked down the reclusive Copernicus...Protestant Reformation, even though such heresy could be fatal. Rheticus and Copernicus worked for 2 years to finish the manuscript...
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Frombork, Poland's peaceful pearl
Newspaper article from: The Press; 9/17/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...for planetarium 5 zloty. * Accommodation: Kopernik Hotel; School youth hotel Copernikus (summer only); Aniela pension; Rheticus Family House; PTTK Camping Ground. * Bars and restaurants: Pod Wzgorzem; Bistro bar; Akcent; numerous quick snack bars...
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The Stranger behind The Copernican Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch; 4/1/2006; 487 words
; ...enlightens the readers on the discoveries acknowledgment punishable by death, they will learn of the young mathematician Joachim Rheticus' search for the aging astronomer, eventually teaming up to spend another two years perfecting the documentation of Copernican...
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Science in Europe, 1500-1800, a Primary Sources Reader.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...including not only the most well-known contributors to the Scientific Revolution, but also lesser known debaters such as G. J. Rheticus, Robert Recorde, Edward Wright, Tomasso Campanella, Georgius Agricola, Thomas Sprat, and W. J. s'Gravesande. The...
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Rheticus, George Joachim
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
RHETICUS, GEORGE JOACHIM ( b . Feldkirch, Austria...December 1574) mathematics, astronomy . Rheticus was the son of George Iserin, the town...Thomasina de Porris, an Italian lady. After Rheticus ’ father was beheaded for sorcery...
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Rheticus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Rheticus (Georg Joachim von Lauchen) , 1514-76, German astronomer, mathematician, and first disciple of Copernicus. In 1540 he printed...
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Osiander, Andreas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Osiander ’ s death. In 1538 Rheticus obtained a leave of absence from Wittenberg...mathematical sciences. Hence, when Rheticus ’ Narratio prima , the first...source of truth. In similar letters to Rheticus and Copernicus on 20 April 1541, when...
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Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...detailed exposition of this system. In 1539 Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514 – 1574) of the University of Wittenberg visited Copernicus. Impressed by Copernicus's theory, Rheticus tested the waters for the publication of Copernicus's...
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Fink (Fincke), Thomas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...to spherical trigonometry. A central place is occupied by Rheticus ’ goniometric tables, but here Fink took a step...than using the complementary character of the functions, as Rheticus had done. In Strasbourg, Fink had been a pupil of the mathematician...
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