NOUN
- Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
How To Use Nicolaus Copernicus In A Sentence
- In the heliocentric universe conceived by the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for example, planets orbited the Sun in perfect circles.
- In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus said that the Earth and all of the other planets revolve around the Sun .
- Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish astronomer noted for his revolutionary theory about the earth revolving around the sun, is often credited with a gastronomic achievement.
- Given that the last Pope, probably recalling his countryman Nicolaus Copernicus, gave a belated but none-the-less necessary pardon of Galileo Galilei, it makes me wonder how far back he wishes to turn the calendar. Archive 2006-09-01
- We credit the idea that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun to the medieval Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
