Introducing Copernicus

Copernicus was an astronomer during the Renaissance period. He came up with the theory of the Heliocentric Solar System. He was born in Poland in February 1473. His father died when he was 11 years old and his uncle, Lucas Watzenrode the Younger, looked after him for the rest of his childhood. Copernicus has two sisters and one brother. Copernicus did not go to university, which was normal during the Renaissance era. Copernicus worked in the Catholic Church and astronomy was only a hobby until 1503. In 1543, in the year of his death, he published a book on his theories called De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium. 

Nicolaus Copernicus