波蘭用DNA證明發現尼古拉哥白尼的遺骨(太陽中心說的科學家)

Scientists say Copernicus' remains found
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Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print 1 hr 20 mins ago AP – Swedish DNA expert Marie Allen speaks at a news conference to announce the identification of remains … WARSAW, Poland – Researchers believe they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton they have found with that of hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.

Jerzy Gassowski, an academic at an archaeology school in Poland, also says facial reconstruction of the skull his team found buried in a cathedral in Poland closely resembles existing portraits of Copernicus, whose theories identified the Sun, not the Earth, as the center of the universe.

Gassowski and Marie Allen, a Swedish DNA expert, told reporters about their findings in Warsaw on Thursday.

Allen said DNA from the bones and teeth matches that of hair found in a book the Polish astronomer owned. It is in a library at Sweden's Uppsala University.

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哥白尼的學說改變了那個時代人類對宇宙的認識，而且動搖了歐洲中世紀宗教神學的理論基礎。由於時代的局限，哥白尼只是把宇宙的中心從地球移到了太陽，並沒有放棄宇宙中心論和宇宙有限論。雖然哥白尼的觀點並不完全正確，但是他的理論的提出給人類的宇宙觀帶來了巨大的變革。恩格斯在《自然辯證法》中評價哥白尼的《天體運行論》說：「自然科學藉以宣布其獨立並且好像是重演路德焚燒教諭的革命行動，便是哥白尼那本不朽著作的出版，他用這本書（雖然是膽怯地而且可說是只在臨終時）來向自然事物方面的教會權威挑戰，從此自然科學便開始從神學中解放出來。」

宇宙到底是有限還是無限？和找到他的遺骨有什麼關係？