Nicolaus
Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and
astronomer
who formulated a model of the universe that
placed
the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the
universe,
possibly independently
Born: February 19, 1473, Toruń, Poland
Died: May 24, 1543, Frombork, Poland
v 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.
v Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
v 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.
v For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the
history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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