Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos. But the Polish astronomer died in ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in northern Poland have uncovered a finely crafted, 500‑year‑old navigational instrument that may once have sat in the hands of Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer who moved Earth from ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...

LAKE LEDNICA, POLAND—Notes from Poland reports that when underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University retrieved a section of a wooden beam from the bottom of Lake Lednica, they were ...

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig in northern Poland. This rare find, made near the remains of a ...

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 ...