Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes
For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.
Citations
Copernicus, Nicolaus. On the Revolutions. Translated by Edward Rosen, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, p. 7.
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.