Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Important, Earth, Ways

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Stars, While, Seen

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth, Since, Direction

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 movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Another, Means, Knew

Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth, Consider, Mobility

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 with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Work, Book, Together

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Between, Earth, Certainty

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth, Anyone, Natural

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Scientist

Born: February 19, 1473

Died: May 24, 1543

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