In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
When, therefore, I had long considered this uncertainty of traditional mathematics, it began to weary me that no more definite explanation of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
![“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.” quote by Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ac/nicolaus-copernicus-10074_axes_we-are-taught-all-this-the-motion-of-the_741583.jpg)
