Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi 'The Thames by moonlight with

'The Thames by moonlight with Southwark Bridge'

aged 78 years

Trafford Park

Crowd celebrating the Kaiser's proclamation of war against Great Britain

Down to Earth market in Leather Lane

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi 'The Thames by moonlight withNicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician, (c1900). Portrait of Copernicus with shooting stars. Copernicus (1473 1543) is considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology. Prior to the work of Copernicus, the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The