GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, the heliocentric theory of the solar system.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the request of Pope Clement VII, he published his find-ings in 1543, but his book raised little controversy. Some 50 years after Copernicus published his findings, in 1609, the Italian inventor Galileo heard about a telescope that had been invented in the Netherlands.

Detailed explanation-3: -What lessons can be learned from the thought and actions of Galileo, who became the “Father of Modern Science”? In February-March 1616, the Catholic Church issued a prohibition against the Copernican theory of the earth’s motion.