Sunday, January 16, 2011

Nicolaus Copernicus on Hypotheses, Certainty, and Astronomy

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"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."

-Nicolaus Copernicus

World History honors Nicolaus Copernicus:

Primary Source: On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus

Secondary Source: Nicolaus Copernicus: And the Founding of Modern Astronomy by Todd Goble

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