Copernicus, Nicolaus: =

Portrait, Halbfigur, halblinks, mit einer Hand Blumen haltend, umher ovaler Rahmen mit Inschrift "Nicolaus Copernicus Tornaus Borussus Mathemat. Nat. A°. 1473 ob. 1543". Umher manieristische Blumenornamente. Monogrammist BR (J.Th. de Bry), Kupferstich aus J.J.Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium, Frankfurt 1597-99, Kupferstich, 142 x 106 auf 147 x 120 mm; hinterlegter Einriss.

      - Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 15) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium", is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution.