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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frombork is a small, quiet town perched on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland. Fishermen keep their boats in a cozy port. In the summer, a ferry shuttles passengers across the bay to ...

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 ...

Meet Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nicolaus Copernicus proposed his theory that the ...

Genetic testing has confired the identity of Nicolaus Copernicus' remains, and suggests that modern astronomy's father had bright blue eyes. His bones were found four years ago under a Roman Catholic ...

Google's Doodle for February 19 is a stately animation of the movement of the planets around the sun. The lovely diagram illustrates the theories of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish astronomer whose ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The ...