Nicolaus Copernicus

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

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

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regard , certainty , enclosed
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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knowledge
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

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those , things , which
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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.

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

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

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

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earth , also , since
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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

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hope
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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.

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truth
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Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

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pouring , forth , seas
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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

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things , highest , heaven
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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.

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fear
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Near the sun is the center of the universe.

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

Nicolaus Copernicus
since , sun , remains