Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The compass resembles the one often depicted with ...

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 ...

In 1508, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system that transformed the way we view the universe. This bold theory, contrary to the geocentric model favored ...

Henrietta, N.Y. — A piece of science history now sits at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Nicolaus Copernicus'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) ...

Excavations near the residence of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus uncovered a rare 16th century measuring tool, or compass, a museum said. Google Street View June 2019 ...

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 ...