"I therefore took this opportunity and also began……" — Nicolaus Copernicus
"I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I knew that others before me had been granted the liberty of imagining whatever circles they wished to represent the phenomena of the stars, I thought that I likewise would readily be allowed to test whether, by assuming some motion of the Earth's, more dependable representations than theirs could be found for the revolutions of the heavenly spheres."
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
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We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
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