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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus is born
February was born on February 19, 1473 -
Jan 1, 1483
Nicolaus' father died
When Nicolaus' father died, his uncle, Lucas Watzenrode, took custody of him and his siblings -
Feb 1, 1491
Nicolaus becomes a student at the University of Cracow
There is no record of him earning a degree -
Feb 1, 1496
Nicolaus attends the University of Bologna
He goes there to study canon law -
Feb 1, 1501
Copernicus leaves Bologna and goes to The University of Padua.
He did not obtain a degree from Bologna -
Feb 1, 1503
Copernicus attends The University of Ferrara in Frombork, Poland
He obtained a doctrate in canon law -
Feb 1, 1507
Copernicus becomes an attending physician to his sick uncle
His uncle also became very ill -
Feb 1, 1509
Copernicus is able to translate books from Latin to Greek
this is important because many Greek astronomer's books had not been translated into Latin -
Feb 1, 1510
Nicolaus becomes a perminant resident of Frombork, Poland
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Period: Feb 1, 1510 to Feb 1, 1514
Nicolaus writes the Commentariolus
The Commentariolus is an essay about his new cosmological idea of the heliocentric universe -
Feb 1, 1512
Copernicus' uncle dies
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Feb 1, 1524
Nicolaus wrote the Letter against Werner
This stated that Johann Werner's “Letter concerning the Motion of the Eighth Sphere” was wrong because he made an error in calculation time. -
Feb 1, 1539
A mathematician named Georg Joachim Rheticus came to study with Nicolaus
He was from the University of Wittenberg -
Period: Feb 1, 1539 to Feb 1, 1543
Rheticus publishes the Narratio Prima
The Narratio Prima was an introduction into Copernicus's ideas -
Period: Feb 1, 1539 to Feb 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus
De Revolutionibus stated that the earth revolved around the sun. -
May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus dies