Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 Westminster in connection with Westminster

Westminster in connection with Westminster Abbey's 900th anniversary celebration

The canal in St James's Park

All three of them are wearing hooped skirts

by Jesse Hurlbut

with a description in the lower margin

Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician mb-code F24 Westminster in connection with WestminsterNicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician, (c1900). Portrait of Copernicus with shooting stars. Copernicus (1473 1543) is considered to be the father of modern astronomy and founder of heliocentric cosmology. Prior to the work of Copernicus, the Earth was considered to be the stationary centre of the universe, a notion first advocated by the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy. Copernicus' pioneering work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (The