Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding ...

He cited that real scientific progress often comes from paradigm shifts—like Copernicus proposing heliocentrism or the invention of CRISPR-based gene editing—rather than from answering ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, bears striking resemblance to the one designed by an Arab Muslim ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist ...

Breaking Bad, The Godfather, The Lord of the Rings, all of these are masterpieces in their own medium. Each medium has multiple masterpieces, making it only natural that anime would also have a fair ...

-Copernicus heliocentrism with a sun instead of the Earth in the center marked the beginning of modern astronomy. -It was this picture that set into motion the Copernican revolution.

Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding light on his astronomical work.

It is not a new struggle: See, for example, the centuries-long authoritarian suppression of Galileo’s championing of Copernican heliocentrism over an earth-centric cosmology (which is still ...

The stars were aligned over the medieval city of Torun Feb. 19, 1473, when a boy was born who later became known as the man who stopped the sun and moved the Earth.

Among the most important recent examples of the new global history is James Poskett’s Horizons, an shockingly ambitious global history of science that argues that the great achievements of European ...