Nicholas Copernicus

My name is Nicholas Copernicus. My birthday is February 19th 1743, and I was born in Poland. I traveled to Italy, and studied in Bologna. Studied astrology.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

Reading is knowledge. Just picked up Regiomontus's Epitome of the Almagest at my local bookstore! #Ptolemy's Model :)

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@whs_bessel yeah it is! I used it for my heliocentric planetary models!

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Jkeplah The world is a heliocentric universe! Boo yeah! #heliocentricuniverse

[Johannes Kepler @Jkeplah]

thanks to the heliocentric model I was able to plug in different #s for vectors and get acceleration

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

Finally published my book De Revolutionibs Orbium Colestium! Read it today! Its in bookstores at Barnes and Noble!! #barnesandnoble

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Jkeplah Also many calculations? Even tho I thought that and was incorrect, that is pretty impressive that you did many calculations!

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

Sorry to tell u the heavens r motionless and its the earth dat revolves #earth

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Jkeplah sorry it seems Aristotle and I both got it wrong we thought planets orbited in circles.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Galile02090 sorry u were put under house arrest by the church that is y I waited to publish my books.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Galileo_Speaks I'm sorry you got put in house arrest now you can see y I waited to publish my books.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Jkeplah yes but you also said that orbits are ellipses and not circles.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Cass1ni that's cool... math is awesome isn't it? I also studied some math which also helped me w/ my heliocentric models! #math

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

Even though there was controversy on my beliefs with my Catholic religion I was glad to put my beliefs out there. Astronomy is #powerful!

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

Without a telescope I was able to theorize the distances between the sun, planets, and stars. #sunmoonstars

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@ARISTOTLE1400 I disprove the theory that objects in the universe travel in perfect circular motion around the earth.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Galile02090 I guess you shot down theory that the universe is perfect and unchanging.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@mmitchell1818 Thanx. I was able to disprove that all heavenly bodies are perfect spheres I didn't know about sunspots.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Galile02090 Am able to explain the sun moon and planets orbit around the sun and I was able to explain retrograde motion- non proven.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

@Cass1ni Maybe..did you teach law at the University of Bologna? I studied law.

[Nicholas Copernicus @CopernicusAstro]

Need to talk to my Latin pple- who want s to discuss some astronomy? #Latin