Nicolaus Copernicus
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 february 1473 - 24 may 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. Copernicus likely developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- Dr. Watson was surprised when he found that Sherlock Holmes was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System (STUD 214).
