Members of Warminska Grupa Eksploracyjna or Warmian Exploration Group, an amateur archaeology organization in Poland, discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Renaissance astronomer ...
Underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University have recovered four exceptionally well-preserved medieval spears from Lake Lednica in western Poland, including one ornately decorated ...
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 ...
An archaeologist recovers a spear in Lake Lednica, Poland. TORUŃ, POLAND—According to a statement released by Nicolaus ...
A 500-year-old compass thought to have belonged to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been found in a castle in Poland. The compass, made of copper-alloy, was found by amateur archaeologists, who used ...
In many ways, astronomers around the world can trace their scientific roots to Nicolaus Copernicus. Born on Feburary 19, 1473, Copernicus was a revolutionary astronomer and mathematician who turned ...