In a culture that placed extreme importance on reverence for ancestors, this remained an important tool well into the 19th century ... in court to affirm his right to the throne. Primarily, the ...

In 1508, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system that transformed the way we view the universe. This bold theory, contrary to the geocentric ...

A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model ...