The Leiden Sphaera — the dynamic model of the solar system pictured above — was built around 1670 by Dutch clockmaker Steven Tracy. The impressive cosmic model measures 1.5 meters across, and is ...

To mark the 540th birth date of Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, Google has created an animated doodle on its homepage depicting the solar system as described in ...

Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and ...

Challenging the status quo often invites skepticism. Think of pioneers like Copernicus and Vibhishan, who were scorned for ...

Some would have us believe that Father Nicolaus Copernicus was fearful of publishing his heliocentric model because of the Catholic Church. This is completely untrue. In fact, a pope, two cardinals ...

In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. The heliocentric theory is the idea that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system and ...

Even someone disconnected with the world of astronomy would have heard about Nicolaus Copernicus, ... Advisory Alert: It has come to our attention that certain individuals are representing themselves ...

Google celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus's 540th birthday, a Renaissance scholar and astronomer, with an animated heliocentric model doodle. Copernicus in his seminal work De revolutionibus orbium ...