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 ...

Nicolas Copernicus is a scientific icon. He, of course, discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Copernicus also wrote a little known essay entitled On the Minting of Money. Last month, ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

It doesn't happen often, but there are times when a single book turns the world on its head. Isaac Newton's Principia unraveled the mystery of gravity. Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species ...

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 ...

In 1510 Nicolaus Copernicus conceived the project that would become the major work of his lifetime: working out the mathematical details of a heliocentric universe. By 1539 his project was ...

Why is Copernicus so celebrated in science? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Alejandro ...

Fifty years ago Thursday, Lunar Orbiter II took a picture of a moon crater. When it was beamed back to Earth, the photo’s then-unique view made the moon real in a way it hadn’t been before — as an ...