Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 with a description in the

with a description in the lower margin

Showing the inscription lower left 'P Sluiter Sculp

Warship the 'St Olave'

Wally Fielding

All three of them are wearing hooped skirts

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 with a description in theNicolas 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