Read more A 500-year-old compass thought to have belonged to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been found in a castle in Poland e The compass, famously pictured in a painting by Jan Matejko's ...

Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding light on his astronomical work.

Meet Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nicolaus Copernicus proposed his theory that ...

This story is a collaboration with Popular Mechanics. Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system ...

Google honored famed 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus on Tuesday (Feb. 19), with a dynamic "doodle" to honor the scientist's 540th birthday.

In 1543, when Nicolaus Copernicus made the astounding claim that Earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around, his ideas were met with scorn. "It went against everything that your ...

A 500-year-old compass thought to have belonged to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been found in a castle in Poland. The compass, made of copper-alloy, was found by amateur archaeologists, who ...