Nicolaus Copernicus — "When, therefore, I had long considered the uncertainty of the traditional mathem…"

When, therefore, I had long considered the uncertainty of the traditional mathematical doctrines concerning the order of the spheres of the universe, I began to be annoyed that no more accurate explanation of the movements of the world-machine, set in order for our sake by the best and most orderly Workman of all, was agreed upon by the philosophers.
Nicolaus Copernicus — Nicolaus Copernicus Early Modern · Heliocentric model of the solar system

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Preface to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Date: 1543

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