Early life
Education
Contributions
Fun Facts
Guess the image
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Where was he born?
Born in Toruń, Royal Prussia, Poland
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What did he study at the University of Cracow?
Painting and Mathematics
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What what the book that majorly influenced him?
The Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest by Johann Müller
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What happened between him and the church?
The church banned his book and didn't agree that the sun was the center of the solar system
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Who is this man?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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When did he live?
1473-1543
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What happened to his studies at the University of Padua in Italy?
He studied practical medicine but never finished
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Whose model was a major influence?
Ptolemy's
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What happened when he died?
He was said to have been clutching his book when he died after suffering a stroke
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What is this?
A model of the heliocentric planetary system
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Are you okay?
No
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Where did you find some info?
The University of Bologna
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Do his contributions hold up today?
Yes, the heliocentric planetary system is true today and is how our planetary system works and because he established that the sun was the center of the solar system instead of the earth
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When was he an orphan?
At 10 years old
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Who is this influencer?
Ptolemy
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What is life?
Lord knows
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Where do you go to highschool?
your mom
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What book did he write?
Wrote a 40 page manuscript about his beliefs on the heliocentric systems
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What was his first language?
German!
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Where is this?
His birthplace
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Why did the chicken cross the road
To get to the other side, duh
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Is the world?
Yes
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What else did he do?
He proposed the Copernican Model, the heliocentric model of the solar system
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What did he do at the University of Bologna?
He went to the German college!
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Who is this man?
A portrait of Copernicus