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We regard it as a certainty t...

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

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

The strongest affection and u...

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

To know the mighty works of G...

To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High, to whom ignorance cannot be more grateful than knowledge.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

The two revolutions, I mean t...

The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

The Universe, wrought for us ...

The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

So if the worth of the arts w...

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

For a traveler going from any...

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

I shall now recall to mind th...

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Therefore I would not have it...

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.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Yet if anyone believes that t...

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

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Since, then, there is no obje...

Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for it, so that it can be regarded as one of the wandering stars. For the fact that it is not the centre of all revolutions is made clear by the apparent irregular motion of the wandering stars, and their variable distances from the Earth, which cannot be understood in a circle having the same centre as the Earth.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Therefore, when I considered ...

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

For I am not so enamoured of ...

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Moreover, since the sun remai...

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

So far as hypotheses are conc...

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Not a few other very eminent ...

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

First of all, we must note th...

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

The massive bulk of the earth...

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Therefore, in the course of t...

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.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

Accordingly, since nothing pr...

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Nikolay Copernicus 33 quotes

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