Summery
Nicolaus Koppernigk was born on Feruary 19, 1473, he lived in Torun, Poland. When Nicolaus's parents died he was sent to live with his oldest brother. When he turned 18 his brother sent him to a university in Krakow, Poldand, where he was learning to become a scholar, and his last name was changed to Copernicus. By the age of 20 he began to realize that the sun was the center of the solar system, and that the Earth orbited the Sun, but he kept those theorys to himself. Nicolaus finish school on 1506, he spent the rest of his life working as a clergyman and a physician. At the end of his days, work, though, he would spend his nights studying the stars and on June 15, 1512, he found a way to prove his theory about the Earthand Sun. Around the time a made that descovery he began to write a book about it, why he thought this, how it could be proven, and what he thought it ment. The book was called Little Commentary, and for 30 years he wrote this book, profected it, mastered it, so that on his dieing day, at age 70 he could see his book be copied and sold. He had clung to life just to see his lifes work go out to the world and on May 24, 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus died.