A statue of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus stands tall in front ... up some art lessons from Italian masters and painted a self-portrait. Yet his main focus remained on math and medicine ...

Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in ... of the famous scientist was made in his lifetime with his only self-portrait having been destroyed in a fire in 1597. Now scientists have ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate ... all based on a much copied self-portrait that has been lost. It was enough for Gassowski and Jurkiewicz. “When I found out who it was ...

Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Renaissance polymath who came up with the then-revolutionary theory that placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the centre of the universe. Astronomer who ...

Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus ... just like the one Copernicus is often depicted holding. GraphicaArtis//Getty Images An engraved portrait circa 1850 of ...

Nicolaus Copernicus' 16th century theory that the Earth ... A computer-generated reconstruction of the man's face bears a strong enough resemblance to portraits of Copernicus to convince the ...

Perhaps he dropped the instrument during his daily commute. The nearby Nicolaus Copernicus Museum agrees, with employee Zorjana Polenik telling local news outlets that the compass could indeed ...

Copernicus, a Polish astronomer who lived in the 16th century, is believed to be one of the early European scientists to have put forward the theoretical model that the sun was the center of the ...