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Nicolaus Copernicus

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

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.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

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

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

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

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

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.

– Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

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

– Nicolaus Copernicus

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