Nicolaus Copernicus — "For, when a ship is floating calmly on a smooth sea, and the mariners are thinki…"

For, when a ship is floating calmly on a smooth sea, and the mariners are thinking of nothing but the voyage, if a sudden storm should strike it, and the ship should be driven by the wind, it is not the ship which is moving, but the sea.
Nicolaus Copernicus — Nicolaus Copernicus Early Modern · Heliocentric model of the solar system

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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (analogy for Earth's motion)

Date: 1543

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