Members of Warminska Grupa Eksploracyjna or Warmian Exploration Group, an amateur archaeology organization in Poland, discovered a 500-year-old compass that may have belonged to Renaissance astronomer ...

Far back in 1508, with only limited tools at his disposal, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system, which he described in his landmark work De revolutionibus ...

A bronze compass, possibly used by one of history’s greatest astronomers, was recently uncovered during an archaeological dig in northern Poland. This rare find, made near the remains of a ...

ROMBORK, Poland -- -- FROMBORK, Poland -- This Baltic coastal village prides itself as the hometown of Nicolaus Copernicus, the astronomer and scientific revolutionary who showed that the Earth ...

A 500-year-old compass thought to have belonged to astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus has been found in a castle in Poland. The compass, made of copper-alloy, was found by amateur archaeologists, who used ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to demonstrate that the earth orbited the sun, upsetting the prevailing notion that the earth was the center of the cosmos. But the Polish astronomer died in ...

Frombork is a small, quiet town perched on the shore of the Vistula Lagoon in northern Poland. Fishermen keep their boats in a cozy port. In the summer, a ferry shuttles passengers across the bay to ...

His theories may have revolutionised the way we think about the world, but the face of Copernicus has since been lost to time. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer born in 1473, revolutionised the ...

In the early 1500s, famed Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus first proposed that the Earth was not the center of the universe — a revelation that, more than 500 years later, has catapulted the 16th ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The compass resembles the one often depicted with ...