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.
Heliocentric model of the solar system
Preface to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
1543
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"When, therefore, I had long considered the uncertainty of the traditional mathematical doctrines concerning the order of the spheres of the universe, I began to be annoyed that no more accurate explan…"
Strange & Unusual"The difficulty of the task, and the novelty of the opinion, almost deterred me from publishing the work."
Strange & Unusual"So, since there are many places in the Sacred Scriptures where the sun is mentioned as moving, and the earth as standing still, these people will hold that I have contradicted the Holy Scriptures."
Controversial"I have been so long in preparing this work that I have almost despaired of publishing it."
Strange & Unusual"The sphere of the fixed stars is immovable and embraces all things."
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