They discover the tomb of the astronomer Nicholas Copérnico in a Polish church

After analyzing rest of bones, as well as a tooth and hair, the scientists concluded in whom had found the tomb of the famous astronomer Nicholas Copérnico. Also they made a reconstruction digital of its face and they showed today it the world.

The group of scientists assures that rest found in the north of Poland, in 2005, belong to the astronomer who revolutionized the scientific world with his theories on the Solar System in century XVI. It lived between years 1473 to the 1543.

Also they realised a digital reconstruction of his face from a found skull in the tomb, and today it is possible knowledge how it was.
 

The Polish and Swedish scientists studied the genetic code of two hair and a tooth.
The results were resisted with the skeleton found in an excavation in Frombork.

As a result of that discovery the group of investigators realised a digital reconstruction of how he can have been Copérnico.

The results show to the face of a man with aquiline nose, sunk eyes and a scar in the forehead, right by above of the right eyebrow.

Two of the 12 found hair have the same sequence of genes that the tooth of the skull and the bones found in Frombork, has indicated Marie Allen, of the University of Uppsala (Sweden) for the Spanish newspaper the Country.
 
We are sure that the rest found in that excavation belong to Nicholas Copérnico, the archaeologist Jerzy Gassowski adds in press conference.

Astronomer, mathematician, jurist and physicist, Copérnico were born in Torun, a locality to the northwest of Warsaw.

The historical annals located their death, to the 70 years, in the Prussian Frombock, but there was not detailed the exact place of his burial, nor the precise date of the event.

With his heliocentric Theory of the Solar System, Nicholas Copérnico laid the way to modern science. In fact, this theory, that among others things indicate that the celestial bodies have cycles and that the planets orbit around the Sun, is considered one of most important in the history of western science

 

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