Nicolas Copernicus stamp – India, 1973 is a part of the centenary series of stamps in India indicating 100 years of significant events, this stamp was launched on the 500 year anniversary of birth of one of the greatest mathematicians in human history – Nicolas Copernicus.
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
The publication of Copernicus’s model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
India used this stamp to acknowledge the great contributions of this mathematician to overall understanding of humanity to a much higher orbit.