![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After the death of his father, he was sponsored by his uncle, Bishop Watzenrode, who sent him first to the University of Krakow, and then to study in Italy at the universities of Bologna, Padua and Ferrara. But he could hardly have anticipated that he would eventually become one of the most famous people of all time on the basis of a book that comparatively few have actually read (and fewer still understood) in the 450 years since it was first printed.Ĭopernicus was bom into a well-to-do mercantile family in 1473, at Torun, Poland. That Nicholas Copernicus delayed until near death to publish De revolutionibus has been taken as a sign that he was well aware of the possible furor his work might incite certainly his preface to Pope Paul III anticipates many of the objections it raised. ![]()
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