Quotes Nicolaus Copernicus

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I...

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away fro...

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun....

Every observed change of place is caused by a motion of eith...

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the ...

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the ...

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

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that p...

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregar...

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history o...

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the...

I CAN easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as som...

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly b...

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bea...

Mathematics is written for mathematicians....

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the so...

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears...

Moreover, there is no difference between the earth's centers...

Near the sun is the center of the universe....

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same...

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixe...

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops ...

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anythi...

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at le...

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its cente...