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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

~Nicolaus Copernicus

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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

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At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

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Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

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First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Scientist

Born: February 19th, 1473

Died: May 24th, 1543

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