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(Q) Death anniversity of Nicolaus Copernicus was ____ ?

A) 24 May 1543
B) 24 May 1542
C) 24 May 1540
D) 24 May 1538

View Answer A) 24 May 1543

Explanation : Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
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(Q) Which chemical element is named after Nicolaus Copernicus ?

A) Nickel
B) Copper
C) Copernicium
D) Platinum

View Answer C) Copernicium

Explanation : The newest and heaviest addition to the periodic table – element 112 – … is to be called Copernicium (Cp) in honour of Nicolaus Copernicus, who discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun, and died in 1543.
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(Q) What was the name of Nicolaus Copernicus famous book ?

A) Astronomia nova
B) On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
C) Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies
D) None of the above

View Answer B) On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres

Explanation : De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) of the Polish Renaissance. The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.
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(Q) Nicolaus Copernicus (Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer) was born on ____ ?

A) 19 February 1475
B) 19 March 1473
C) 19 February 1473
D) 19 March 1475

View Answer C) 19 February 1473

Explanation : Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
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