Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur. - Nicolaus Copernicus

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Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

Nicolaus Copernicus

De Revolutionibus Libri Sex (Nicolaus Copernicus: Gesamtausgabe) · August 19, 1997 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was an early modern astronomer and mathematician; proponent of the heliocentric cosmic model. His book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres], is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution.

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Alternative Names: Niklas Koppernigk • Mikołaj Kopernik • Nikolaus Kopernikus • Copernicus • Kopernikus

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Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

"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."
1543 AD

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open."