Copernicus
or KOPPERNIGK, studied medicine at Cracow, he afterwhich are the Royal Society, founded in 1742; and the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, founded in 1825; as well as agricultural and others. The royal library contains 500,000 volumes. The Museum of Northern Antiquities in Prindsens Palais, is unrivaled in its kind. The Thorwaldsen Museum consists of works of art by that sculptor himself, and others left by him to the Danish nation.
The chief exports of Copenhagen are grain, rape-seed, butter, cheese, beef, cattle, wool, hides, bones, and grain-spirit. NICHOLAS, a noted astronomer; born Porcelain, pianos, clocks, watches, math in Thorn, Poland, Feb. 19, 1473. Having ematical instruments, chemicals, sugar, ward devoted himself to mathematics and About the middle of the 12th century, astronomy, and in 1500 taught mathe- Copenhagen was but a fishing village. village. matics at Rome with great success.
Re- In 1254 the village obtained the privi- turning to his own country he was made leges of a town, and in 1443 King Christopher made it the capital of the kingdom. It was several times attacked by the Hanseatic League; was besieged by the Swedes in the 17th century; was bombarded by the English, Dutch, and Swedes in 1700; suffered grievously by fires in 1728, 1794, and 1795; witnessed a great sea-fight in its roads on April 2, 1801, when the English, under Sir Hyde Parker, with Nelson as his second in command, destroyed the Danish fleet; and (to prevent the Danish fleet from falling into the power of Napoleon), was bombarded by the English from the 2d to the 5th of September, 1807, when great destruction was wrought, both in houses and public buildings, and hundreds of persons lost their lives. Pop. (1916) 506,390.