Man's vocation is to have the courage to explore the truth. - Copernicus
Nikolai. Copernicus was the great Polish astronomer, the founder of the center of the sun, and the founder of modern astronomy. Copernicus was also a prominent physician, social activist, mathematician, economist and painter. Copernicus was born into a merchant family in the Polish city of Toruń, the son of which his father was the city's mayor.
Copernicus was raised by his uncle Archbishop Vadslord at the age of 10 and received a good education in which he had a keen interest in astronomy as a teenager, and at the age of 18 he entered the University of Krakow. The school's humanist, mathematician and astronomer Bruchusky gave him great influence, and Copernicus often consulted the scholar on astronomical and mathematical problems, and also learned to observe the heavens with astronomical instruments.
In 1500, Copernicus went to Rome to work as a mathematics teacher due to financial difficulties. In this titular holy city, he saw the hypocrisy and absurdity of the Holy See. The following summer, Copernicus returned to China, and because of the support of the church, he returned to Padua in Italy in the autumn to study medicine. In 1503, Copernicus obtained a degree in ecclesiastical jurisprudence from the University of Ferrara.
Copernicus's diligent and studious work accomplished a great deal. He was fluent in Latin and Greek, and also studied ancient Greco-Roman literature; He had drawn maps of the Elmenland region; Designed water pipes in the cities of Elmenlandsui; He was also an excellent mathematician, publishing his ball and trigonometric papers in his magnum opus Theory of Celestial Motion.
When Copernicus left Italy and returned to Poland, a rare astrological sign appeared in the sky: Saturn and Jupiter "rendezvoused". Because Pope Alexander died by drinking the poisonous wine that murdered others, the Italian Church took the opportunity to offer various "warnings", announcing that there would be four consecutive visions of saturn and Jupiter "meeting" in the sky, saying that this was a serious warning from heaven to the world.
At this time, Copernicus and his friends were also studying the problem of the "rendezvous" of the two stars in Krave. Copernicus found that the church's claims were data errors, so he and his friends decided to make observations in different regions in order to expose the church's falsehood together.
The date of the fourth "rendezvous" did not correspond to what the church had said, and it was more than a month earlier. And this is exactly in line with Copernicus's calculations. This phenomenon confirms Copernican's speculations.
In Hersburg, copernicus put his "center of the sun" at the constant urging of his friends.
An outline, titled "On the Hypothesis of the Motion of The Celestial Bodies," copied to several of his confidants, declared: "All celestial bodies revolve around the sun, and near the sun is the center of the universe." The Earth itself rotates one week a day and one orbit around the sun in a year. ”
The Hypothesis of the Motion of Celestial Bodies was the first cornerstone of Copernican theory. But because of the church's frenzied persecution of scientific and progressive ideas, Copernicus's Hypothesis on the Motion of The Celestial Bodies, written over several years, was difficult to publish.
Copernicus's only protégé was mathematician Letik of Wittenberg University in Germany, and his friend Tiedman. Ji Zhedu was eager to help him publish. In 1541, he finally made up his mind to publish his work.
In the autumn of 1541, Letic sent Copernicus's manuscript to Nuremberg for publication. Because Leutik was persecuted by the Church because he believed in copernican doctrine, he had to flee the Church. Before leaving, he commissioned his friend, the Lutheran priest Osciendel, to publish Copernicus's works on his behalf. However, the priest, at the behest of Meranhedon, tampered with Copernicus's original intentions. In his book The Movement of the Celestial Bodies, he crammed a cowardly preface.
By the time the book was printed and sent to Fronborg in 1543, Copernicus was in danger. His eyes were blind, and he only clutched the book with a spasmodic hand and touched it, and he died.
Copernicus's achievements were not only that he provided famous doctrines, but importantly, he broke through the prison of human thought under the suppression of the secular church, and since then has led to an endless stream of scientific discoveries in the true sense...