Members of Warminska Grupa Eksploracyjna or Warmian Exploration Group, an amateur archaeology organization in Poland, discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Renaissance astronomer ...
ROMBORK, Poland -- -- FROMBORK, Poland -- This Baltic coastal village prides itself as the hometown of Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer and scientific revolutionary who showed that the Earth ...
A 500-year-old compass thought to have belonged to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been found in a castle in Poland. The compass, made of copper-alloy, was found by amateur archaeologists, who used ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Genetic testing has confired the identity of Nicolaus Copernicus' remains, and suggests that modern astronomy's father had bright blue eyes. His bones were found four years ago under a Roman Catholic ...
Google's Doodle for February 19 is a stately animation of the movement of the planets around the sun. The lovely diagram illustrates the theories of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish astronomer whose ...
In the early 1500s, famed Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the universe — a revelation that, more than 500 years later, has catapulted the 16th ...
One of the more curious legends in popular history of science is that Nicolaus Copernicus was a Catholic priest. And Galileo gets the blame for launching this little myth. But the founder of the ...