Thesis: While Copernicus had many ideas about astrology, astronomy, economics and philosophy, his heliocentric theory was the biggest contribution he made in the Middle Ages.
             II. His effect on the scientific community
             III. His effect on the religious community
             B. Ideas contradicting religious belief
             C. Concepts leading towards church and state separation
             copernicus was a revolutionary astronomer, and his heliocentric theory made him infamous. Copernicus lived during a time where what the church said was taken to be truthfully and with out question. He was a scholarly man, who attended various universities and was highly regarded under a variety of different teachers. His ideas caused a huge uproar in not only the scientific community, but also in the religious community. Copernicus was a religious man who found ideas that directly contradicted his religion. He made use of his heliocentric theory to not only influence, but to create modern astronomy. While Copernicus had many ideas about astrology, astronomy, economics and philosophy, his heliocentric theory was the biggest contribution he made in the Middle Ages.
             Born on Feb. 19, 1473, in Thorn, Copernicus worked at his theories until death in. May of 1543. When Copernicus was ten, his father died and his uncle Lucas Watzenrode (who was appointed prince bishop of Warmia) adopted him. His uncle sent him to the most well renowned universities. In 1491, Copernicus attended the University of Krakow taking four years of liberal arts, but receiving no degree. In 1492 (the year Columbus discovered America), Copernicus was only 19. We have no account of how the discovery affected Copernicus. Its easy to see how the Greek ideas and inferences of the earth as a sphere could be true; this undoubtedly made Copernicus question other Principles of the thought and understandings of the universe at the time. At the University of Bologna, Copernicus began studying Canon Law. In 1501...