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Nicolaus Copernicus

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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.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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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.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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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.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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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.


— Nicolaus Copernicus


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Did you know about Nicolaus Copernicus?

"After we had named elements after our city and our state we wanted to make a statement with a name that was known to everyone" said Hofmann. At that time there was no reason to accept the Copernican theory except for its mathematical simplicity [by avoiding using the equant in determining planetary positions]. His sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and left five children whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life.

The publication of Copernicus' book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the history of science. Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia a region of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. Copernicus had a doctorate in canon law and though without degrees was a physician polyglot classics scholar translator artist[better source needed] governor diplomat and economist who in 1517 set down a quantity theory of money a principal concept in economics to the present day and formulated a version of Gresham's Law in the year 1519 before Gresham.

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