about his life and his theory very well organized Nicolaus Copernicus His Life:         Throughout history people have always looked up at the sky and wondered about the universe. Some just wonder while others attempt to solve this mystery. One of the people who had endeavored to solve it was Nicolaus Copernicus.         Copernicus was born in the present day town of Torun, Poland in February of 1473. While still a young boy, Copernicus was put in custody …showed first 75 words of 1315 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1315 total…his predecessors, however most of his theory was accepted, while the radical ones were omitted.         The one concept that was not liked was that the earth moved around the sun. To deal with this dilemma, Tycho Brahe met Copernicus and Ptolemy halfway by making the earth a stationary object while the planets orbited the sun in the center.         The rotating earth idea was not revived until the English philosopher Isaac Newton started explaining celestial mechanics.