"Es darf daher die Strebsamen nicht wundern, wenn dergleichen Leute auch uns verspotten. Mathematische Dinge werden für Mathematiker geschrieben, die, wenn mich meine Meinung nicht täuscht, einsehen werden, dass diese unsre Arbeiten auch an dem kirchlichen Staate mit bauen, dessen höchste Stelle Deine Heiligkeit jetzt einnimmt."
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aus "Nicolaus Coppernicus aus Thorn über die Kreisbewegungen der Weltkörper", Übersetzung: Carl Ludwig Menzzer. Nürnberg und Thorn: Lambeck, 1879. S. 8
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Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 – 1543
preußischer Astronom, Domherr, Jurist und Mediziner
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