For nearly 500 years, no one has known for sure where Copernicus was buried. Copernicus is credited as the first European to realize that the earth revolved around the sun, not the other way around. According to an article I just read, a skeleton was found in a church in 2005. They were able to confirm it to be Copernicus two different ways. Forensic reconstructions match portraits of Copernicus painted while he was living. Second, DNA from hairs in a book that had been owned by him, match the DNA of the skeleton. The age of the person who died even matches the age we know Copernicus was when he died: 70. The one thing about the article I hated is that it says:
His ideas challenged the Bible, the church and past theories, and they had important consequences for future thinkers, including Galileo, Descartes and Newton.
In no way did Copernicus and Galileo heliocentric hypothesis, now a proven fact, challenge the Bible. It does challenge the church. No where does the Bible teach that sun revolves around the earth or that it is flat. That was a doctrine that the Catholic church taught as dogma for centuries and killed some people who challenged those ideas as heretics. The church is to blame for that, not the Bible.
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