New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

Four hundred years ago this week, the Inquisition met in Rome to discuss Galileo’s support for the Copernican model of the cosmos, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system.

Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) is generally credited with changing the model of the Solar System to one with the Sun at the centre. Detailed observations with telescopes have given us evidence ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

“Ibn al-Shatir's solar model, with a new eccentricity ... adapting them to his Sun-centered system.” Asked whether she thinks Copernicus loaned at least parts of his theory from Ibn al-Shatir ...