For, when a ship is floating calmly on a smooth sea, and the mariners are thinking of nothing but the voyage, if a sudden storm should strike it, and the ship should be driven by the wind, it is not the ship which is moving, but the sea.
Heliocentric model of the solar system
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (analogy for Earth's motion)
1543
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"The earth has a spherical shape, for it is bounded on all sides by the circumference of a circle."
Controversial"The order of the planets is this: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury."
Strange & Unusual"Nor do I doubt that learned and skillful mathematicians will agree with me if they are willing to give not superficial but profound attention to the arguments I adduce in this work."
Strange & Unusual"For it is the work of a good mathematician to compute the motions of the heavenly bodies, and to predict their positions at any given time."
Strange & Unusual"Having thus assumed the motions which I ascribe to the earth, I have, after long and careful investigation, finally discovered that, if the motions of the other planets be related to the revolution of…"
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