The world famous Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in Poland into a fairly big family.0:01
Nicholas had a brother and two sisters.0:13
In 1491 he went to Krakow University where he studied mathematics, medicine and religion.0:16
His favorite subject was astronomy.0:24
In 1497 Copernicus went to Italy and spent several years there trying to get a better education.0:27
In 1503 he got a university diploma and began working as a doctor.0:35
But he devoted a lot of time to scientific studies.0:41
He wrote a book about a new model of the world whose center is the sun, not the Earth.0:45
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12th February 1809.0:53
He was a great English naturalist and a well known traveler.0:59
He was the first scientist to show evolution among animals.1:03
He developed a theory that explained how people appeared on our planet.1:07
Darwin was very much interested in nature and studied different plants and animals.1:13
During his long journeys he made a lot of discoveries.1:18
The results of his work were shown in his books.1:23
His theory was supported by many scientists.1:26
Darwin died on 19 April in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in London.1:29
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a great Russian scientist, was born in the city of Izhevsk in 1857.1:39
When he was nine he fell ill and as a result he was not able to hear well during his life.1:48
Four years later his mother died.1:55
The boy had to study at home by himself.1:58
His only friends were books.2:01
At the age of 16 he was sent to Moscow where he studied chemistry, mathematics and astronomy.2:03
Life in the capital of Russia was rather expensive and in 1876 he left Moscow for Vyatka.2:10
Tsiolkovsky began his career as a schoolteacher, but he was very much interested in astronomy and space.2:18
In 1892 he moved to Kaluga where he lived with his family and began his scientific experiments.2:26
He was the first to create a model of a rocket that was able to fly to space.2:34
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