Copernicus Technology was formed in 2008 by Jim Cockram, Phil Eastwood, Giles Huby and James Martland to be innovative in an emerging technology - Intermittent Fault Detection.
With great hopes of being pioneers in a new specialist field, we took inspiration for the company name from Nicolaus Copernicus. Born in 1473 Copernicus, and literally on his death-bed in 1543, he published his book 'On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres' which became the trigger for the Scientific Revolution.

And over the 12 years that Copernicus Technology has led the field of Intermittent Fault Detection - not least in their design and production of the portable Voyager Intermittent Fault Detector. Copernicus Technology has always been pleased with their name choice and it's deep routes linked with being pioneering. But now we discover that Copernicus, like many others in Science, had a forebearer too.
A book written by Seb Faulk a lecturer at Cambridge University, 'The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery' reveals that Nicolaus Copernicus himself had inspiration from a John of Westwyk who was born to a peasant family in 1350s but, by the age of 20, Westwyk was knowledgeable in Mathematics and Astronomy leading to the creation in 1392 of the disc-shaped instrument to calculate the position of the planets and predict eclipses!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/forgotten-monk-paved-the-way-for-copernicus-twmm0mk3m

It is amazing that over 600 years ago John of Westwyk was able to tabulate data of planetary position to the equivalent of 18 decimal places!

Pioneering indeed.