Ano: 2008
Valor facial: 5 Dólares
Diâmetro: 38,61 mm
Metal: 925/1000 Ag
Qualidade: Proof (c/ cristal)
Peso: 25gr.
Tiragem: 2500 pçs
Valor facial: 10 Dólares
Diâmetro: 13,92 mm
Metal: 999.9/1000 Au
Qualidade: Proof (c/ cristal)
Peso: 1.24gr.
Tiragem: 7500 pçs
Premium Set Nicolaus Copernicus
Amazing gold (partly silverplated) and silver (partly goldplated)
coin issued by the Cook Islands in 2008. The coin reverse depicts an
effigy of polish astronomer and scientist Nicolaus Copernicus and the
legend "Nicolaus Copernicus" (name also written in polish),"Stellarium",
dates "1510 - 1583" and the year of issue. The coins also depicts the
planetarium with Swarovski crystal placed in the middle. The coin
obverse depicts the effigy of the Queen Elizabeth II. and the
denomination.
These coins are delivered in luxury dark-brown wooden case along with the certificate of authenticity.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Italian: Nicol?
Copernico; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk; 19
February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first
person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which
displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the
Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published just before his death
in 1543, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and
the defining epiphany that began the scientific revolution. His
heliocentric model, with the Sun at the center of the universe,
demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be
explained without putting Earth at rest in the center of the universe.
His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a
landmark in the history of science that is often referred to as the
Copernican Revolution.
Among the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a
mathematician, astronomer, jurist with a doctorate in law, physician,
quadrilingual polyglot, classics scholar, translator, artist, Catholic
cleric, governor, diplomat and economist.
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of
Toruń, in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of
Poland. His father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother was the
daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant. Nicolaus was the youngest of four
children. His brother Andreas (Andrew) became an Augustinian canon at
Frombork (Frauenburg). His sister Barbara, named after her mother,
became a Benedictine nun and, in her final years (she died after 1517),
prioress of a convent in Chełmno (Culm, Kulm). His sister Katharina
married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and
left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life.
Copernicus never married or had children. "Towards the close of 1542,
he was seized with apoplexy and paralysis." He died on 24 May 1543, on
the day that he was presented with an advance copy of his De
revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
