In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and ...

To mark the 540th birth date of Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, Google has created an animated doodle on its homepage depicting the solar system as described in ...

Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus ...

Did Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton make isolated discoveries, or did Islamic science contribute to their work on astronomy ...

It's Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th birthday, and Google marked the day with a lovely medieval model of the heliocentric solar system. Why? Because Copernicus was the first person to say what every ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473, beginning a life that would see the Renaissance mathematician and astronomer shake up theories that claimed the Earth was the center of the universe ...

These days, we are treated to glorious images of the cosmos through astrophotography and sophisticated three-dimensional visualizations of the universe. In the early centuries of astronomy, however, ...

Google celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday, a Renaissance scholar and astronomer, with an animated heliocentric model doodle. Copernicus in his seminal work De revolutionibus orbium ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The compass resembles the one often depicted with ...