Copernicus at rest

[valpomike]

I just got word the Nicolaus Copernicus who was buried 500 years ago, in a unmarked grave, was, on Saturday, reburied by Polish priest as a hero. His burial in a tomb in the cathedral where he once served as a church canon and doctor indicates how fare the curhc has come in making peace with the scientist whose revolutionary theory the the Earth revolves around the Sun helped usher in the modern scientific age.

This story is from the Sunday, May 23, 2010 edition of the Press Enterprise.

Good news, it took long enough, but is now done.


Mike

[valpomike]

Does anyone know of more on this, and why it took so long? I had heard the church held this up, why was that? After all the years, action could have been taken long ago.

Mike

[Bonobo]

May 23, 2010 22:31:21 GMT 1 valpomike said:

I just got word the Nicolaus Copernicus who was buried 500 years ago, in a unmarked grave, was, on Saturday, reburied by Polish priest as a hero. His burial in a tomb in the cathedral where he once served as a church canon and doctor indicates how fare the curhc has come in making peace with the scientist whose revolutionary theory the the Earth revolves around the Sun helped usher in the modern scientific age.
This story is from the Sunday, May 23, 2010 edition of the Press Enterprise.
Good news, it took long enough, but is now done.
Mike

I think the burial took place so that Poles could state it clearly one more time that Copernicus was Polish after all, and not German. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Film:http://www.universetoday.com/2010/05/24/copernicus-reburied-with-honors/

The remains of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus were reburied with special honors during a Roman Catholic ceremony, interred beneath the altar of Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland. Copernicus had been buried in an unmarked grave in 1543, and his remains were not conclusively identified until 2005, through DNA testing.

Although he was not the first to ever have the idea, Copernicus proposed that the earth revolved around the sun — contrary to the medieval belief that the earth was the center of the universe.

Copernicus is best known for his treatise "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres." His theories were viewed with suspicion by the Church, and his treatise was not published until after he died.

Eventually the theory became the cornerstone for a future generation of scientists including Kepler and Galileo, but one of its ardent advocates, Italian cleric Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600.

The DNA analysis of two strands of hair from a book that Copernicus owned – Calendarium Romanum Magnum, by Johannes Stoeffler – match the DNA of a tooth and femur bone taken from the remains at Frombork.

Radar was used to search for Copernicus' remains underneath the floor of the cathedral.

[valpomike]

Thank you for the information, and yes, he is Polish.

Mike