Nicolaus Copernicus
Full Name-
Nicolaus Copernicus
Born-
19 February 1473
Died-
24 May 1543
- Formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
- The publication of Copernicus' model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
- In 1517 he derived a quantity theory of money – a key concept in economics – and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's law.
