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Which universities in Italy did Nicolaus Copernicus attend?
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus, 1580, from the Town Hall in ToruÅ, Poland; in the collection of Muzeum OkrÄgowe w Toruniu (Regional Museum in ToruÅ). In his book De revolutionibus, he proposed that the Sun was the center of the solar system and that the planets circle the Sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus attended two universities in Italy to further his education:
- University of Bologna: Copernicus studied here between 1496 and 1500, where he worked as an assistant to the astronomer Domenico Maria de Novara.12
- University of Padua: He pursued medical studies at this institution between 1501 and 1503.12
While Copernicus received a doctorate in canon law from the University of Ferrara in 1503, he did not actually study at that university.12