Nicholas Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus is often considered one of the founders of modern astronomy. His discovery's led him to the conclusion that the Earth rotates on its axis and that it, like all the other planets, revolves around the sun. His discovery's influenced those scientists and astrologers thatcame after him, such as Galileo, Newton and Kepler. Nicholas Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, in Thorn, Poland. His maternal uncle raised him after his father's death. This …showed first 75 words of 473 total…

…showed last 75 words of 473 total…concept of motion using Copernicus's theory's and Isaac Newton, who based his Universal law of gravity on much of Copernicus's work. In conclusion, Copernicus's work did many things to revolutionize the way man thinks ( scientifically ) by "opening the flood gates" and giving other scientists laws and theorem to base there discovery's on. Unfortunately, Copernicus never got to see his work published, as the church only allowed it to go public in 1543, the year he died,