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 ...

Nicolaus Copernicus Animated Google Doodle Models Heliocentric Solar System A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Copernicus so celebrated in science? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Alejandro ...

Why is it that whenever scientists make a distressing discovery about our world, we want to drag them before a trial or hearing to make them account for their findings, as The Gazette suggested in a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the mid-1500’s Copernicus developed the modern version of heliocentrism, the idea ...