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Nicolaus Copernicus

"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."

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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."

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"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
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"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."
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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."
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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."
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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."
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"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."
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"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 conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
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"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
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