Archaeologists in northern Poland have uncovered a finely crafted, 500‑year‑old navigational instrument that may once have sat in the hands of Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer who moved Earth from ...

The Catholic Church banned his writings, and beliefs in the1500's. In Italy, Galileo was put on trial by the Inquisition for ...

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig in northern Poland. This rare find, made near the remains of a ...

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Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...