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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

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The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

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Near the sun is the center of the universe.

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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

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Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

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Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

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I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Scientist

Born: February 19th, 1473

Died: May 24th, 1543

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