Nicolaus Copernicus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicolaus Copernicus

Renaissance mathematician, Polish astronomer, physician

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1473

Place of Birth: Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 24-May-1543

Profession: astronomer, physician, physicist, mathematician, jurist, economist, diplomat, translator, artist, philosopher, legal scholar

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Nicolaus Copernicus (; Polish: Mikolaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Niklas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance-era polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe, in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.The publication of Copernicus' model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466.
A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist.
In 1517 he derived the quantity theory of money—a key concept in monetary economics—and in 1519 he formulated an economic principle that later came to be called Gresham's law.