Thursday, November 20, 2008
Copernicus Rises Again
In keeping with the same general topic as my last post, the remains of Copernicus have been identified through DNA testing. For those of you not astronomically inclined, he was the dude who forwarded the theory that the sun, rather than the earth, is the center of this universe. It was thought that he was buried in the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Frombork, Poland, but no one knew exactly where in the cathedral he was buried until now. DNA was matched by analyzing one of his teeth and some hair that was left in a book that he owned.
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