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Which Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus
- Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced…
- 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…
- 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 fully…
- Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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