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Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, author of the system of the world in which the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Essays: First Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Essays: First Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkeley

  Nicolaus Copernicus, a sixteenth-century Polish astronomer. He argued that the Earth goes round the Sun, not the other way round.

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 to 1543), the astronomer who showed that the Earth is not the center of the world. The Copernican Principle: an observer is probably not in a special place or at a special time.

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