Copernicus has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Copernicus taught that the earth moves around the sun. | |
| 2. | Copernicus proposed the idea that the Earth travels around the Sun. | |
| 3. | Copernicus turned from a person into a personification. | |
| 4. | Copernicus became a symbol, that of heliocentrism. | |
| 5. | In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus suggested that the Sun was at the center of the universe. | |
| 6. | Because the Church taught that the Earth was at the center of the universe, Copernicus' theory was regarded as heresy. | |
| 7. | Over a 20 year period of time, Tycho Brahe made consistent observations which supported the heliocentric theory proposed earlier by Copernicus. These observations were made using only a compass and a sextant. | |
| 8. | Copernicus worked at many different jobs. He was a doctor, lawyer, author, judge and tax collector. | |
| 9. | Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Poland in 1473. | |
| 10. | Nicolaus Copernicus became interested in astronomy while he was a university student in Italy. |