Podcast: STORIES FROM THE EASTERN WEST #37 - REVOLUTION

Hear the story of the man who turned the known universe upside down.
Nicolaus Copernicus, born in 1473, was the orphaned son of a copper merchant in Toruń. Thanks to his bishop uncle, he obtained a first class education at the Kraków Academy and then in Italy, where he became an avid observer of the night sky - even though he was supposed to be preparing for a church career.
His day job as a church canon, diplomat and doctor in Frombork - when he wasn't defending castles against the Teutonic Knights - meant that it took him over 30 years to finish his book 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres' in which he presented an Earth-shattering new idea - that maybe it wasn't actually at the centre of the universe as everyone believed, but in fact revolved around the Sun.
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Written & produced by Peter Wolodzko
Edited by Wojciech Oleksiak & Adam Zulawski
Hosted by Nitzan Reisner & Adam Zulawski
Scoring & sound design by Wojciech Oleksiak
Stories from the Eastern West is a podcast from Culture.pl telling little-known histories from Central & Eastern Europe that changed our world. It was brought to you by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.