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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
ABHINAV 01
ARYAN JAIN 03
KRISHNA 08
PIYUSH 12
SAI HARSHITH 15
SAKET 16
SHREYA 18
VARSHINI 23
Born 19 February 1473
Toruń (Thorn),
Royal Prussia,
Kingdom of Poland
Known for Heliocentrism
Quantity theory of money
Gresham–Copernicus law
EARLY LIFE
Nicolaus Copernicus’ father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother
was the daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant.Nicolaus was the youngest
of four children. His brother Andreas (Andrew) became
an Augustinian canon at Frombork (Frauenburg). His sister Barbara, named
after her mother, became a Benedictine nun and, in her final
years, prioress of a convent in Chełmno (Kulm); she died after 1517. His
sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel
Gertner and left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of
his life. Copernicus never married and is not known to have had children,
but from at least 1531 until 1539 his relations with Anna Schilling, a live-
in housekeeper, were seen as scandalous by two bishops of Warmia who
urged him over the years to break off relations with his "mistress“
EDUCATION