Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi 'The Thames by moonlight with

'The Thames by moonlight with Southwark Bridge'

View showing the bay of an aisle next to the crossing

Trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Crowd celebrating the Kaiser's proclamation of war against Great Britain

a 'Nocoonaca' ('may be called The Great West-Indian Goat-Chafer')

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician Albi 'The Thames by moonlight withNicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician, (c1900). Portrait of Copernicus with shooting stars. Copernicus (1473 1543) is considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology. Prior to the work of Copernicus, the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The