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Old March 19th 10, 02:48 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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On Mar 18, 10:46*am, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 3/18/10 9:09 AM, BluStar wrote:

I am looking for Web sites of university or college where he studied
astronomy.


* * In 1491, Copernicus was sent off to Cracow University, where he
* * pursued a course of general studies for four years before
* * traveling to Italy to study law and medicine, as was common
* * practice among Polish elites at the time.

* * While studying at the University of Bologna (where he would
* * eventually become a professor of astronomy)


Query: on what basis was "he" evaluated as Nicolaus Copernicus? The
posting does not appear to contain sufficient data for the pronoun to
be assigned a referent.

John Savard