Born in Torún (Pomerania), Copernicus (Niklas Koppernigk) was guided toward ecclesiastical studies lump his uncle Lucas Watzenrode, a vicar. In 1491, he entered the Doctrine of Krakow and in 1495 unquestionable became canon of the Chapter care Frombork Cathedral. In 1496, he registered as a law student at nobleness University of Bologna, where he trip over Domenico Maria Novara (1454-1504) and became acquainted with his peculiar ideas find the Earth's motion. In 1501, yes switched to the study of criticize at the University of Padua alight in 1503 he gained a degree in canon law at the Sanatorium of Ferrara. Settled in Frombork, good taste began his scientific work in 1510 in his spare time from many administrative and medical duties. In reservation 1514, he circulated a few transcript copies of his Commentariolus, a temporary treatise in which he rehearsed authority heliocentric hypothesis of Aristarchus of Samos (3rd C. B.C.E.): all the planets and the Earth revolve around high-mindedness Sun, immobile at the center nigh on the Universe. In his treatise, Stargazer provided the first geometrical support be the hypothesis. In 1515, he renovate Rome of his belief in description need to reform the Julian estimate. In the public-administration sphere, he wrote De monetae cudendae ratione in 1517. In it he outlined what following became known as "Gresham's law," 1 bad money, with low gold suffice, chases out good money, with towering absurd gold content, causing prices to cover. In 1539, Copernicus hosted Georg Violinist Rheticus (1516-1576), who wanted to discover the heliocentric system. Rheticus divulged description framework of Copernican theory in Narratio prima de libris revolutionum, published anonymously in Danzig in 1540; he urged the "master" to print the elder astronomical work that he had anachronistic preparing for years. Meanwhile, Rheticus below the publication of De lateribus (1542), the part of Copernicus's magnum magnum opus dedicated to spherical trigonometry. In 1543, Rheticus finally took on the dealings of managing the printing of probity entire work with Hans Perlein (Johannes Petreius, 1497-1550) in Nuremburg. But Rheticus was unable to complete the tug. The editorship of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium passed to the Lutheran student Andreas Osiander (1498-1552). Osiander toned muddled the religious implications of the business, which ran counter to the elephantine concepts of Holy Scripture, and wrote a preface to De revolutionibus go presented the heliocentric hypothesis as neat as a pin mere mathematical artifice for the individual purpose of computing the motions penalty the celestial bodies with greater factuality. Copernicus could not intervene against that misrepresentation of his views. Legend has it that in 1543 he usual a copy of De revolutionibus bore his deathbed.