This artistic excellent medal has been to commemorate the great astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus.
diameter ABOUT - 10
metal – bronze metal
weight about 380gr. (about 13.44 oz.)
Nicolaus
Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was the first astronomer to
formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the
Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus
orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often
regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany
that began the Scientific Revolution.
Although Greek,
Indian and Muslim savants had published heliocentric hypotheses centuries
before Copernicus, his publication of a scientific theory of heliocentrism,
demonstrating that the motions of celestial objects can be explained without
putting the Earth at rest in the center of the universe, stimulated further
scientific investigations, and became a landmark in the history of modern
science that is known as the Copernican Revolution.
Among the
great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer,
physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor,
military leader, diplomat and economist. Amid his extensive responsibilities,
astronomy figured as little more than an avocation — yet it was in that field
that he made his mark upon the world.
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