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“Thus indeed, as though seated on a royal throne, the sun governs the family of planets revolving around it.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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Thus indeed, as though seated on a royal throne, the sun governs the family of planets revolving around it. Citation: Alternate translation: Then in the middle of all stands the sun. For who, in our most beautiful temple, could set this light in another or better place, than that from which it can at once illuminate the whole? Not to speak of the fact that not unfittingly do some call it the light of the world, oth Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus (CC BY-SA)
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