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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Nicolaus Copernicus

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1543
Originally in
Originally in Latin
Pages
Pages 450

At the centre of everything sits the sun. Who, asks Nicolaus Copernicus, would put this lamp anywhere else in so beautiful a temple, when from there it can light the whole at once?

Thus indeed, as though seated on a royal throne, the sun governs the family of planets revolving around it.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Nicolaus Copernicus

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