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Nicolaus Copernicus Facts
Nicolaus Copernicus Is Born On February 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus Zodiac Sign Is Pisces
Nicolaus Copernicus Zodiac Symbol Is Fish
Nicolaus Copernicus Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Water
Nicolaus Copernicus Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Snake
Nicolaus Copernicus Occupation Is Scientist
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Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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 Quotes
Although all the good arts serve to draw mans mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Every observed change of place is caused by a motion of either the observed object or the observer or, of course, by an unequal displacement of each. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, with both eyes open. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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 Quotes
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
I am aware that a philosophers ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earths mobility. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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 Quotes
Moreover, there is no difference between the earths centers of gravity and magnitude. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Near the sun is the center of the universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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 Quotes
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth. - Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
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 Quotes
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