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“What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty. Citation: Introduction to Book 1, as quoted/translated by Edward Rosen, Nicholas Copernicus on the Revolutions (1978) ed. Jerzy Dobrzycki, Edward Rosen. Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus (CC BY-SA)
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Copernicus, Nicolaus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Nicolaus Copernicus. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

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