Copernicus revolutionized scientific and cultural history after proving that Earth was just another planet in a universe full of them. Conceptual philosopher and prankster Jonathon Keats has taken ...

It’s not a stretch to say the Copernican revolution fundamentally changed the way we think about our place in the universe. In antiquity people believed the Earth was the centre of the solar system ...

On the 542nd birth anniversary of mathematician and astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, we look back at his greatest contribution, the theory of heliocentrism, in which he formulated a model of the ...

In the early 1500s, famed Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the universe — a revelation that, more than 500 years later, has catapulted the 16th ...

The year 1543 A.D. will forever be celebrated as a sentinel time in the annals of science. In that year, Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer, published his model of the universe ...

NARRATOR: It was a time of discord in the Christian world. Threatened by the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church demanded strict adherence to its dogma, enforced by the violent threat of ...

Nicholas Copernicus was the astronomer who, five centuries ago, explained that Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than vice versa. A true Renaissance man, he also practised as a mathematician, ...

In November 1859, Charles Darwin published his seminal book on the Origin of Species. His studies caused a pivotal change in how we view ourselves just as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) and Galileo ...

Web giant celebrates the 540th birthday of the astronomer best known for his theory that the sun -- and not the Earth -- was at the center of the universe. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET ...