Nicolaus Copernicus — "The difficulty of the task, and the novelty of the opinion, almost deterred me f…"
The difficulty of the task, and the novelty of the opinion, almost deterred me from publishing the work.
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Preface to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (paraphrased sentiment)
Date: 1543
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