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

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 lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: ...