Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus is born

Feb 19, 1473

February was born on February 19, 1473

Nicolaus' father died

Jan 1, 1483

When Nicolaus' father died, his uncle, Lucas Watzenrode, took custody of him and his siblings

Nicolaus becomes a student at the University of Cracow

Feb 1, 1491

There is no record of him earning a degree

Nicolaus attends the University of Bologna

Feb 1, 1496

He goes there to study canon law

Copernicus leaves Bologna and goes to The University of Padua.

Feb 1, 1501

He did not obtain a degree from Bologna

Copernicus attends The University of Ferrara in Frombork, Poland

Feb 1, 1503

He obtained a doctrate in canon law

Copernicus becomes an attending physician to his sick uncle

Feb 1, 1507

His uncle also became very ill

Copernicus is able to translate books from Latin to Greek

Feb 1, 1509

this is important because many Greek astronomer's books had not been translated into Latin

Nicolaus becomes a perminant resident of Frombork, Poland

Feb 1, 1510

Nicolaus writes the Commentariolus

Period: Feb 1, 1510 to Feb 1, 1514

The Commentariolus is an essay about his new cosmological idea of the heliocentric universe

Copernicus' uncle dies

Feb 1, 1512

Nicolaus wrote the Letter against Werner

Feb 1, 1524

This stated that Johann Werner's “Letter concerning the Motion of the Eighth Sphere” was wrong because he made an error in calculation time.

A mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus came to study with Nicolaus

Feb 1, 1539

He was from the University of Wittenberg

Rheticus publishes the Narratio Prima

Period: Feb 1, 1539 to Feb 1, 1543

The Narratio Prima was an introduction into Copernicus's ideas

Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus

Period: Feb 1, 1539 to Feb 1, 1543

De Revolutionibus stated that the earth revolved around the sun.

Nicolaus Copernicus dies

May 24, 1543