Teaduslik revolutsioon
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and perhaps of even more importance, medieval man could not understand that the planets or the stars or
comets were made of the same stuff as an apple matter. [ aine ]
So monumental were his achievements in cosmology, the Scientific Revolution could almost have been
called the Copernican Revolution. Born in Poland in 1473, it was the humble astronomer Nicholas
Copernicus (14731543) who challenged the geocentrism of Ptolemy with his own heliocentric universe.
Ptolemy would never recover neither would the Christian matrix. Copernicus studied mathematics at
Cracow and managed to obtain a law degree from Bologna as well. In 1500 he was in Rome where he
witnessed a lunar eclipse. The following year he studied medicine at Padua and in 1505 he left Italy for
Prussia. By 1512 he was settled in Prussia where he not only observed the movement of the heavenly bodies
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