Examples of using "Copérnico" in a sentence and their english translations:
Nicolaus Copernicus is considered the founder of modern astronomy.
Copernicus taught that the earth moves around the sun.
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus suggested that the Sun was at the center of the universe.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
In 1632, he published a book that stated, among other things, that the heliocentric theory of Copernicus was correct. Galileo was once again called before the Inquisition and this time was found guilty of heresy.
He also discovered sunspots, the dark areas of the Sun. He saw that the planet Venus has light and dark phases just like the Moon. These discoveries provided empirical information that proved that the Sun is at the center of the Solar System, as Nicholas Copernicus had predicted.