His influences included his onetime roomate, Domenico Novara, who introduced him to a tract by Regiomontanus.
This scholar was the first person to translate historian Theophylactus Simocattes into Latin. His influences included his onetime roomate, Domenico Novara, who introduced him to a tract by Regiomontanus. After reading that book, he worked out a system that eschewed deferants, equants, and epicycles. As he died, he authorized the publication of (*) Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs, which outlined a heliocentric theory of the universe. For 10 points, name this Polish predecessor of Galileo.
This scholar was the first person to translate historian Theophylactus Simocattes into Latin.
Nicolaus {Copernicus} [or Mikolaj {Kopernik}]