Copernicus's studies in Kraków

Timeline

1. 1491Jagiellonian University · KrakówCopernicus traveled from the Toruń area to Kraków and registered in the Faculty of Arts of Jagiellonian University, studying logic, natural philosophy, arithmetic and astronomy, becoming a student at an important Central European academic center of the time.
2. 1492–1494Kraków · KrakówDuring his time at the university Copernicus studied the Ptolemaic system, astronomical tables and spherical geometry in depth, and encountered the astronomical-mathematical works of the Kraków school. He had not yet proposed heliocentrism, but had mastered the core tools needed for his later reform of astronomy.
3. 1495Toruń · ToruńAround 1495 Copernicus ended his studies in Kraków and returned to Pomerania without obtaining a university degree. He would later go on to further study in Bologna, Italy, but his Kraków training remained the academic starting point of his astronomical thought.