Examples of using "Kopernik" in a sentence and their english translations:
Copernicus was born in Toruń.
Copernicus studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Krakow.
Copernicus taught that the earth moves around the sun.
Copernicus studied law and medicine at the universities of Bologna, Padua, and Ferrara in Italy.
In Copernicus' time most astronomers believed the theory the Greek astronomer Ptolomy had developed more than 1,000 years earlier. Ptolomy said the Earth was the center of the universe and was motionless. He believed all other heavenly bodies moved in complicated patterns around the Earth.