Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland in 1473 to a middle class family. ... Eventually Nicolaus would receive a law degree at the University of Ferrara. ... Although this provided for Nicolaus to travel in the most powerful circles, he remained a student. Nicolaus Copernicus, although not the first to consider that the earth may revolve around the sun and not the reverse, is credited with the achievement. ... Initially planning a two week visit with the then 66 year old Copernicus, he ultimately became a border for two years. In this time he came to discover the reason that Copernicus hadn’t officially published his work since he introduced his heliocentric theory some thirty years earlier. ... In his original manuscript of Des Revolutionibus, which went missing for 300 years and then finally turned up in Prague in the middle of the 19th century, Copernicus’ pen, it would appear, was in constant motion as he continually revised the document.