Nicolaus Copernicus — "Yet because the novelty of the undertaking, which I knew to be contrary to the a…"

Yet because the novelty of the undertaking, which I knew to be contrary to the accepted views of the common people, might be regarded as absurd, I long hesitated.
Nicolaus Copernicus — Nicolaus Copernicus Early Modern · Heliocentric model of the solar system

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Dedication to Pope Paul III in 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium'

Date: 1543

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