Astronomy Quote by Abraham Calovius

“Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s…

— Dan Brown

“Some of the men to whom Copernicus communicated his theory were German Lutherans, but when Luther came to know of it, he was profoundly…

— Bertrand Russell

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by…

— Thomas Blundeville

“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky,…

— Martin Luther

“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved the issue…

— Gary B. Ferngren

“You know who Nicolaus Copernicus is?” “Was,” Walker said. “Some old astronomer. Polish, I think. Proved the earth goes around the sun.” Reacher nodded.…

— Lee Child

“Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen heavens, in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the Sun, like…

— Christiaan Huygens

“He thought that when he had healed sufficiently, and withdrawn from the capital, he might write the magus a letter and open a correspondence…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“Likewise, Augustine made the effort of historical imagination to register to the full the Jewishness of Jesus and the apostles. And now, he wrote…

— Simon Schama

“After an injunction had been judicially intimated to me by this Holy Office, to the effect that I must altogether abandon the false opinion…

— Galileo Galilei