The publication of Copernicus’s model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

His father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant.Nicolaus was the youngest of four children.

The “Toruń portrait” (anonymous, c. 1580)
Born	19 February 1473 Thorn, Royal Prussia, Poland
Died	24 May 1543 (aged 70) Frauenburg, Royal Prussia, Poland
Education	University of Kraków (1491–1495) University of Bologna (1496–1500) University of Padua (1501–1503) University of Ferrara (DCanL, 1503)
Known for	Heliocentrism Quantity theory of money Gresham–Copernicus law
Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy Canon law Economics Mathematics Medicine Politics
Academic advisors	Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara
Influences	Aristotle Averroes Euclid Haly Abenragel Regiomontanus
Influenced	Johannes Kepler
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