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Group: Jewish Agency for Palestine
People: Malhar Rao Holkar
Topic: Tripoli, Siege of
Location: Pereyaslavets Tulcea Romania

Copernicus, shortly after receiving his doctorate from …

Years: 1514 - 1514

Copernicus, shortly after receiving his doctorate from Ferrara, returns from to Poland and eventually settles at the cathedral in Frauenberg, not a hundred miles (one hundred and sixty kilometers) from his birthplace in Thorn.

By May 1514, the forty-one-year-old Copernicus has written and discreetly circulated in manuscript his Commentariolus, the first outline of his challenge to the geocentric cosmology that has been accepted dogmatically since the time of Aristotle.