BC: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia at the Battle of the Granicus. 1176: ...

Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will carry the national flag and a collection of culturally significant items on his upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

professor emeritus of astronomy and the history of science at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and author of The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.

The treatise, called The First Account of the Book on the Revolutions by Nicolaus Copernicus, piqued the interest of astronomers all over Europe. They would not have to wait long for a full accoun ...

Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose ... and he received a copy of the printed book on the day he died.

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Toruń ... It was only many years later in 1616 that the Catholic church banned the book for opposing church doctrine. According to legend, Copernicus used ...

In his possession were works by Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, and other important figures in astronomy, all of which will hit the block during the sale. Given the current ...

Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium ... which “had one of the best rare book libraries for a college,” Geiger says. The question—which the librarian suggested he ask of ...

Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in ... Supporters point to the fact that hairs taken from a book believed to belong to Copernicus were revealed to be a DNA match for the remains.

Nicolaus Copernicus was a polymath with an incredible ... He only held a finished copy of his book on his deathbed. What a feeling it must have been to stop the sun, to move the Earth and to ...

the 550th Anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus' Birth opened at the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing on Thursday, 480 years after the publication of his landmark book On the ...